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At the macroscopic scale, many important models of collective motion fall into the class of kinematic flows for which both velocity and diffusion terms depend only on particle density. When total particle numbers are fixed and finite,…
Lacking a universal law for granular flows across gravitational environments, fundamental processes such as hopper discharge remain vulnerable to failure in low gravity environments. A central challenge is clogging, the spontaneous arrest…
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We probe the diffusive motion of particles in slowly sheared three dimensional granular suspensions. For sufficiently large strains, the particle dynamics exhibits diffusive Gaussian statistics, with the diffusivity proportional to the…
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