We present results from a granular dynamics study of the nonequilibrium behavior of a freely evolving inelastic granular gas. The velocity and density fields exhibit complex pattern formation, which is reminiscent of phase-ordering systems. At early times, the density field stays approximately...

Random sequential adsorption is an irreversible surface deposition of extended objects. In systems with continuous degrees of freedom coverage follows a power law, θ(t)≈θJ−ct−α, where the exponent α depends on the geometric shape (symmetry) of the objects. Lattice models give typically...