Transient structures in a granular gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Brilliantov, Nikolai ^a,b   Salueña, Clara ^c   Schwager, Thomas ^a   Pöschel, Thorsten ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VELOCITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

GRANULAR GASES; HYDRODYNAMIC EQUATIONS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT STRUCTURES;

GASES;

EID: 19644374520     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.134301     Document Type: Article

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