Phenomenological modeling of the compaction dynamics of shaken granular systems
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 54 (3) , 2925-2930
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.54.2925
Abstract
Granular systems such as powder or sand can compact because of shaking. Using a phenomenological decay law for the successive inverse packing fractions, we obtain the relaxation dynamics for the packing fraction recently found in the experiment by Knight et al. [Phys. Rev. E 51, 3957 (1995)] and discuss the physical implications as well as the physical origin of the proposed decay law. © 1996 The American Physical Society.Keywords
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