Structures in sand streams

Detlef Lohse and Devaraj van der Meer
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Detlef Lohse: Detlef Lohse and Devaraj van der Meer are in the Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center, and at the Impact and Mesa+ Institutes, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands. d.lohse@utwente.nl
Devaraj van der Meer: Detlef Lohse and Devaraj van der Meer are in the Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center, and at the Impact and Mesa+ Institutes, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands. d.lohse@utwente.nl

Nature, 2009, vol. 459, issue 7250, 1064-1065

Abstract: An ingenious experiment that involves dropping a costly, high-speed video camera from a height of several metres reveals how free-falling streams of granular matter, such as sand, break up into grain clusters.

Date: 2009
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