Heterogeneities in granular dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 8244-8249

  Mehta, A ^a   Barker, G C ^b   Luck, J M ^c  

^a S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Glassy dynamics; Granular physics; Heterogeneous phases; Intrinsic states

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; GRAIN; GRAVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 46249121293     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711733105     Document Type: Article

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