Two types of avalanche behaviour in granular media

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6733, 1999, Pages 241-243

  Daerr, Adrian ^a   Douady, Stéphane ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; FLOW VELOCITY; GRANULAR MEDIUM; SLOPE DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 0033587053     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20392     Document Type: Article

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