Publication Date:
2015-10-17
Description:
Author(s): Henk Jan van Gerner, Ko van der Weele, Devaraj van der Meer, and Martin A. van der Hoef When a bed of sand is vertically shaken, many small heaps form which then merge over time until they eventually form one large heap. The authors analyze the scaling behavior of the number and average size of the heaps with time, and find that it depends on their connectivity as the merging process takes place. This is reminiscent of other phase transition behaviors, such as coarsening and domain growth. [Phys. Rev. E 92, 042203] Published Fri Oct 16, 2015
Keywords:
Granular Materials
Print ISSN:
1539-3755
Electronic ISSN:
1550-2376
Topics:
Physics
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