Granular Thermodynamics

We present experimental evidence for a strong analogy between quasi-2D uniform non-equilibrium steady states (NESS) of excited granular materials and equilibrium thermodynamics. Under isochoric conditions we find that the structure of granular NESS, as measured by the radial distribution function, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shattuck, M. D., Ingale, R. A., Reis, Pedro Miguel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60233
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3984-828X