Granular flow down a rough inclined plane: Transition between thin and thick piles

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Silbert, Leonardo E ^a   Landry, James W ^a   Grest, Gary S ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

INCLINED PLANE GEOMETRY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

DYNAMIC MODELING; GRANULAR SOLID; INCLINATION; RHEOLOGY; SOLID FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 0037274969     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1521719     Document Type: Article

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