Transition due to base roughness in a dense granular flow down an inclined plane

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kumaran, V ^a   Maheshwari, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINED FLOW; MACHINERY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); STRAIN RATE; VOLUME FRACTION;

CLOSE-PACKED LAYERS; COORDINATION NUMBER; DENSE GRANULAR FLOWS; DISCONTINUOUS TRANSITION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; RANDOM CONFIGURATIONS;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

EID: 84861981212     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4710543     Document Type: Article

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