Sensitivity to solid volume fraction of gravitational instability in a granular medium

Granular Matter

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 317-325

  Bonnet, Félix ^a   Richard, Thierry ^a   Philippe, Pierre ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Avalanche; Collapse granular flows; Gravitational instability

Indexed keywords

DAM-BREAKS; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOURS; GRANULAR FLOWS; GRANULAR MEDIUM; GRAVITATIONAL DESTABILIZATION; GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; PACKING FRACTIONS; POST PROCESSING; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION;

CONFINED FLOW; GRANULAR MATERIALS; GRAVITATION;

STABILITY;

EID: 77954887185     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-010-0178-7     Document Type: Article

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