Silo clogging reduction by the presence of an obstacle

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 27, 2011, Pages

  Zuriguel, Iker ^a   Janda, Alvaro ^a   Garcimartín, Angel ^a   Lozano, Celia ^a   Arévalo, Roberto ^a   Maza, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULAR FLOWS; PACKING FRACTIONS; PEDESTRIAN CROWD DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

PHYSICS;

EID: 84855293916     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.278001     Document Type: Article

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