Collective motion and solid-liquid type transitions in vibrated granular layers

Nicolás Mujica, Leonardo Caballero and Francisco Melo

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 263, issue 1, 362-368

Abstract: Experiments on thin layers of granular material subjected to vertical vibration reveal a series of subharmonic bifurcations from flat surface to standing wave patterns. From pressure and surface layer dilation measurements we show that a solid-liquid type transition precedes surface wave bifurcation, indicating that these waves are associated with the fluid-like behavior of the layer. Other structures observed, like the flat with kinks state, are linked to an inverse liquid-solid type transition.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00521-4

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