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Shaken sand — a granular fluid?

Paul Umbanhowar ()
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Paul Umbanhowar: Northwestern University

Nature, 2003, vol. 424, issue 6951, 886-887

Abstract: The connection between random grain motion and viscosity in shaken sand — a strongly non-equilibrium system — has been probed. Curiously, the link is similar to that found in an ordinary liquid in thermal equilibrium.

Date: 2003
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