Jamming during the discharge of grains from a silo described as a percolating transition

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3 1, 2003, Pages 303011-303014

  Zuriguel, Iker ^a   Pugnaloni, Luis A ^b   Garcimartín, Angel ^a   Maza, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORIFICES; PROBABILITY; SILOS (AGRICULTURAL);

GLASS BEADS; GRANULAR FLOW;

PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE);

EID: 0242662520     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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