Additive rheology of complex granular flows

Granular materials are abundant in nature, but we haven’t fully understood their rheological properties as complex interactions between particles are involved. Here, Vo et al. show that granular flows can be described by a generalized dimensionless number based on stress additivity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thanh Trung Vo, Saeid Nezamabadi, Patrick Mutabaruka, Jean-Yves Delenne, Farhang Radjai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15263-3