Bottlenecks in granular flow: When does an obstacle increase the flow rate in an hourglass?

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Alonso Marroquin, F ^a   Azeezullah, S I ^a,b   Galindo Torres, S A ^b   Olsen Kettle, L M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTED FLOWS; FREE FLOW; GRANULAR FLOWS; MONODISPERSE; PEAK FLOWS; TRAFFIC FLOW;

CONFINED FLOW; GRANULAR MATERIALS;

FLOW RATE;

EID: 84857702314     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.020301     Document Type: Article

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