Cooperative length approach for granular media

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 311-318

  Caglioti, Emanuele ^a   Coniglio, Antonio ^b   Herrmann, Hans J ^c,d   Loreto, Vittorio ^d   Nicodemi, Mario ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c ESPCI   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Configurational entropy; Cooperative Regions; Free volume; Slow relaxations

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COOPERATIVE LENGTH APPROACH;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0033097513     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00660-8     Document Type: Article

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