Randomly driven granular fluids: Large-scale structure

The nonequilibrium steady state of a granular fluid, driven by a random ext ernal force, is demonstrated to exhibit long-range correlations, which beha ve as similar to 1/r in three and similar to ln(L/r) in two dimensions. We calculate the corresponding structure factors over the whole range of wave numbers, and find good agreement with two-dimensional molecular dynamics si mulations. It is also shown by means of a mode coupling calculation, how th e mean field values for the steady-state temperature and collision frequenc y, as obtained from the Enskog-Boltzmann equation, are renormalized by long wavelength hydrodynamic fluctuations.