Anita Mehta

Granular Physics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

2007 account of developments in granular physics for researchers in statistical and mathematical physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780521187992
• ISBN-10: 0521187990
• Artikelnr.: 32733610

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Computer simulation approaches - an overview
3. Structure of vibrated powders - numerical results
4. Collective structures in sand - the phenomenon of bridging
5. On angles of repose: bistability and collapse
6. Compaction of disordered grains in the jamming limit: sand on random graphs
7. Shaking a box of sand I - a simple lattice model
8. Shaking a box of sand II - at the jamming limit, when shape matters!
9. Avalanches with reorganising grains
10. From earthquakes to sandpiles - stick-slip motion
11. Coupled continuum equations: the dynamics of sand-pile surfaces
12. Theory of rapid granular flows
13. The thermodynamics of granular materials
14. Static properties of granular materials
Author index
Subject index
Bibliography.