A nonlinear diffusion model for granular segregation

H.C.Marques Fernandes, J.j Arenzon, Y Levin and M Sellitto

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, vol. 327, issue 1, 94-98

Abstract: We study a set of nonlinear diffusion equations describing the evolution of densely packed particles under gravity subject to random vibrations. Although the thermodynamics of the model predicts no phase separation at all, the dynamics displays both normal and reverse segregation depending on the mass of the species present in the system.

Keywords: Granular systems; Jamming transition; Brazil nut effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00457-6

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