Clustering and non-gaussian behavior in granular matter

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3848-3851

  Puglisi, A ^a   Loreto, V ^b   Marconi, U Marini Bettolo ^c,e   Petri, A ^d,e   Vulpiani, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HEAT LOSSES; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BROWNIAN PARTICLES; INELASTIC COLLISIONS; THERMODYNAMIC LIMIT; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

EID: 0032476441     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3848     Document Type: Article

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