Fingering in granular flows

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6627, 1997, Pages 816-817

  Pouliquen, O ^a   Delour, J ^a   Savage, S B ^b  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; FLOW; GEOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GRANULAR MATERIALS; INSTABILITY; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

AVALANCHE; FINGERING INSTABILITY; GRANULAR FLOW; INCLINED PLANE; LANDSLIDE; LANDSLIDE MECHANISM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 0030618873     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386816a0     Document Type: Article

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