Segregation and pattern formation in dilute granular media under microgravity conditions

Space exploration and exploitation face a major challenge: the handling of granular materials in low-gravity environments. Indeed, grains behave quite differently in space than on Earth, and the dissipative nature of the collisions between solid particles leads to clustering. Within poly-disperse ma...

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Autors principals: Eric Opsomer, Martial Noirhomme, Nicolas Vandewalle, Eric Falcon, Simon Merminod
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Publicat: Nature Portfolio 2017-01-01
Col·lecció:npj Microgravity
Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-016-0009-1