MODELING OF DYNAMICS OF THE SHAPE OF A FLAT BODY OF MALLEABLE METAL IN CASE OF ISOTROPIC BOMBING BY SAND PARTICLES
The initial form of the grains of gold found in the nature in most cases is a flat plate (a scaly form). However, during pneumoseparation, the toroidal shape of pieces of gold is often found and considered to be the most effective. Thus, the task of estimating time of formation of a toroidal piece of gold is important. In the paper, we consider the evolution of the surface of a flat disk of malleable metal deformed by isotropic bombing with fine particles and develop a mathematical model of this evolution. We obtain a differential equation describing the change of the deformed surface of a round disk which is solved then by a Runge-Kutta method. Studying the solution of the equation, we found that the body rather quickly reaches the most stable toroidal form when the deformed surface gets its maximal value and then a slower transformation of the surface into the sphere follows. We estimate the time of formation of a toroid from a disk with certain parameters of the considered system. The received results could be used for developing more exact models of evolution of flat bodies bombed with fine particles.