Taming the complexity of granular materials with vector calculus

Abstract

Granular materials, which occur widely in nature and industry, exhibit a vast range of complex behaviour: self-organized pattern formation and multiphase behaviour that defies conventional solid/ fluid/ gas classification. Arguably the most important source of this complexity is the immense number of degrees of freedom in the system, an aspect that presents serious challenges to the modeller.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 29, 2009
Accession Number
AD1053572

Entities

People

  • A. Tordesillas
  • C Mangelsdorf
  • D Kirszenblat

Organizations

  • University of Melbourne

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  • Assembly
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fluids
  • Granular Materials
  • Materials
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanics
  • Particles
  • Physics
  • Relative Motion
  • Shear Bands
  • Simulations
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  • X-Ray Computed Tomography

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