Coffee beans in a jar and piles of rice or sand are examples of granular matter: materials composed of large numbers of ...

The term “granular flows” refers to a system of solid particles in which the flow behavior is dictated solely by particle-particle and particle-wall interactions (i.e., the role of the interstitial ...

MEGraMa: An experiment with magnetically excited granular particles on a research rocket. The dynamics of these particles can be investigated both with and without propulsion. Granular matter is ...

According to Michigan State University and Penn State University Extension, granular and liquid fertilizers ... to NH4 so it can be absorbed into soil particles. These special considerations ...

Flowing granular materials often superficially resemble classical fluids, but due to their finite yield stress and effectively athermal particles, their dynamical behavior is often counter-intuitive ...

It is also studied in the laboratory at the microscopic level in materials with a disordered particle structure, for example in glasses, granular materials or foams. Their particles can "slide" in ...

for example in glasses, granular materials or foams. Particles can "slide" in a similar way to avalanches, causing the structure to lose its stability and become deformable, even independently of ...