Planar collapse of a granular column: Experiments and discrete element simulations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Lacaze, Laurent ^a   Phillips, Jeremy C ^a   Kerswell, Rich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; PILES; VELOCITY;

DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; GRANULAR COLUMNS; INITIAL PARAMETER; INTERNAL MOTION; LINEAR VELOCITY; RATE PREDICTIONS; RECTANGULAR BLOCK; TIME-DEPENDENT STRAINS;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 47149116473     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2929375     Document Type: Article

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