Ping‐Pong Ball Avalanche Experiments

• 24 April 2001
• book chapter
• Published by Wiley
• p. 135-148
• https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444304275.ch10

Abstract

Keywords

• PING-PONG BALL AVALANCHE EXPERIMENTS
• SNOW AVALANCHES MEASURED AND OBSERVED IN SHIAI VALLEY
• KUROBE
• BALL MEASUREMENTS
• MEASURING AIR VELOCITY IN PARTICULATE FLOWS BEING DIFFICULT
• GRANULAR FLOW EXPERIMENTS WITH STYRENE PARTICLES AND FRONT VELOCITY FOUND TO INCREASE WITH NUMBER OF BALLS
• FLOW STRUCTURE AND BALL VELOCITIES
• LOWER BOUNDARY EFFECTS AND A MIXING REGION BEHIND HEAD