Granular Physics

Anita Mehta

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511535314

The field of granular physics has burgeoned since its development in the late 1980s, when physicists first began to use statistical mechanics to study granular media. They are prototypical of complex systems, manifesting metastability, hysteresis and bistability, and a range of other fascinating phenomena. This 2007 book is a wide-ranging account of developments in granular physics, and lays out the foundations of the statics and dynamics of granular physics. It covers a wide range of subfields, ranging from fluidisation to jamming, and these are modelled through a range of computer simulation and theoretical approaches. Written with an eye to pedagogy and completeness, this book will be valuable asset to any researcher in this field. The book also contains contributions from Professor Sir Sam Edwards, with Dr Raphael Blumenfeld, Professor Isaac Goldhirsch and Professor Philippe Claudin.

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1 - Introduction
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2 - Computer simulation approaches – an overview
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3 - Structure of vibrated powders – numerical results
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4 - Collective structures in sand – the phenomenon of bridging
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5 - On angles of repose: bistability and collapse
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6 - Compaction of disordered grains in the jamming limit: sand on random graphs
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7 - Shaking a box of sand I – a simple lattice model
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8 - Shaking a box of sand II – at the jamming limit, when shape matters!
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9 - Avalanches with reorganising grains
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10 - From earthquakes to sandpiles – stick–slip motion
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11 - Coupled continuum equations: the dynamics of sandpile surfaces
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12 - Theory of rapid granular flows
pp 176-208
- By Isaac Goldhirsch, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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13 - The thermodynamics of granular materials
pp 209-232
- By Sam Edwards, Raphael Blumenfeld, University of Cambridge
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14 - Static properties of granular materials
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- By Philippe Claudin, CNRS, Paris
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-ix

Preface
pp x-xii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-17

2 - Computer simulation approaches – an overview
pp 18-26

3 - Structure of vibrated powders – numerical results
pp 27-51

4 - Collective structures in sand – the phenomenon of bridging
pp 52-62

5 - On angles of repose: bistability and collapse
pp 63-78

6 - Compaction of disordered grains in the jamming limit: sand on random graphs
pp 79-93

7 - Shaking a box of sand I – a simple lattice model
pp 94-103

8 - Shaking a box of sand II – at the jamming limit, when shape matters!
pp 104-114

9 - Avalanches with reorganising grains
pp 115-131

10 - From earthquakes to sandpiles – stick–slip motion
pp 132-147

11 - Coupled continuum equations: the dynamics of sandpile surfaces
pp 148-175

12 - Theory of rapid granular flows
pp 176-208

13 - The thermodynamics of granular materials
pp 209-232

14 - Static properties of granular materials
pp 233-273

References
pp 274-296

Index
pp 297-305

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