Abstract
We show, in two different experiments on stationary flow past an obstacle, that several features such as Mach cones and shock wave detachment usually observed in supersonic molecular fluids under extreme conditions are also observed for granular fluids. By pursuing this analogy, we measure the speed of sound in these experiments and find it in agreement with predictions from granular kinetic theories. Surprisingly, and in spite of this agreement, measured velocity distributions are far from being Gaussian and display algebraic tails.
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