Segregation mechanisms in a numerical model of a binary granular mixture

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

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Ehrhardt, George C M A ^a,b   Stephenson, Andrew ^a   Reis, Pedro M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY GRANULAR MIXTURE; COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; NONSPERICITY; SEGREGATION MECHANISM;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 41349110032     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.041301     Document Type: Article

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