Experimental evidence of the kinematic Cosserat effect in dense granular flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Ananda, S K ^a,b   Patra, Jaysree ^a,c   Nott, Prabhu ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b CAE Macmet Technologies   (India)

^c INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULAR MATERIALS; KINEMATICS;

CONTINUUM DESCRIPTION; DENSE GRANULAR FLOWS; DENSE GRANULAR MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; MATERIAL ELEMENTS; SHEAR LOCALIZATIONS; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 66849128378     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3138744     Document Type: Article

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