A Taylor vortex analogy in granular flows

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7007, 2004, Pages 433-437

  Conway, Stephen L ^a,b   Shinbrot, Troy ^a   Glasser, Benjamin J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; GEOPHYSICS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MIXING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; STABILITY;

CONVECTIVE MIXING; SEGREGATION PATTERNS; SHEAR TRANSMISSION;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLUID FLOW; FLUIDIZATION; GRANULAR MEDIUM; VORTEX;

ARTICLE; FLOW; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID FLOW; FLUIDIZATION; GAS; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR FLOW; SOLID; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 4944254010     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02901     Document Type: Article

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