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Granular Physics (Softcover)
Granular Physics (Softcover)
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From the back cover: "The field of granular physics has burgeoned since its development in the late 1980s, when physicists first began to use statistical mechanics to study granular media. They are phototypical of complex systems, manifesting metastability, hysteresis, bistability and a range of other fascinating phenomena."This book provides a wide-ranging account of developments in granular physics, and lays out the foundations of the statics and dynamics of granular physics. It covers a wide range of subfields, ranging from fluidisation to jamming, and these are modelled through a range of computer simulation and theoretical approaches. Written with an eye to pedogogy and completeness, this book will be a valuable asset for any researcher in this field.
"In addition to Professor Mehta's detailed exposition of granular dynamics, the book contains contributions from Professor Sir Sam Edwards, jointly with Dr Raphael Blumenfeld, on the thermodynamics of granular matter; from Professor Isaac Goldhirsch on granular matter in the fluidised state; and Professor Philippe Claudin on granular statics."
BRIEF CONTENTS
- Preface
- 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 sandpile surfaces
- 12 Theory of rapid granular flows - Isaac Goldhirsch
- 13 The thermodynamics of granular materials - Sir Sam Edwards and Raphael Blumenfeld
- 14 Static properties of granular materials - Philippe Claudin
- References
- Index
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PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 9780521187992
ISBN-10: 0521187990