Granular Physics - Softcover

Mehta, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521187990 ISBN 13: 9780521187992

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The field of granular physics has burgeoned since its development in the late 1980s, when physicists first began to use statistical mechanics to study granular media. They are prototypical of complex systems, manifesting metastability, hysteresis and bistability, and a range of other fascinating phenomena. This 2007 book is a wide-ranging account of developments in granular physics, and lays out the foundations of the statics and dynamics of granular physics. It covers a wide range of subfields, ranging from fluidisation to jamming, and these are modelled through a range of computer simulation and theoretical approaches. Written with an eye to pedagogy and completeness, this book will be valuable asset to any researcher in this field. The book also contains contributions from Professor Sir Sam Edwards, with Dr Raphael Blumenfeld, Professor Isaac Goldhirsch and Professor Philippe Claudin.

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Book Description

This 2007 book is a wide-ranging account of developments in granular physics, and lays out the foundations of the statics and dynamics. Its pedagogical approach contains discussions at the end of each chapter. This will be a valuable asset for any researcher in this field.

About the Author

Anita Mehta, a former Rhodes scholar, is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. She is well known as being one of the pioneers in granular physics, and is credited with the introduction of many new concepts in this field, in particular to do with the competition of slow and fast modes in granular dynamics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521187990
• ISBN 13: 9780521187992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322