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Book SynopsisSand, rice, sugar, snow, cement... Although ubiquitous in our daily lives, granular media still challenge engineers and fascinate researchers. This book provides the state-of-the-art of the physics of granular media and recent advances in the field for graduate students and researchers in physics, applied mathematics and engineering.
Trade Review'Granular Media is a welcome step forward in its clarity of composition, descriptions of phenomena, and qualitative discussions and quantitative analysis of applications. The material is accessible for all graduate students in physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, and engineering. It would also serve well as a textbook for an advanced graduate course.' Colin R. Meyer, Pure and Applied Geophysics
'The book is encyclopaedic in its coverage, supported by more than six hundred references. It is very well written … and will be a welcome addition to those with an interest in the subject.' N. Riley, Contemporary Physics
Table of ContentsForeword; 1. Introduction; 2. Interactions at the grain level; 3. The granular solid: statics and elasticity; 4. The granular solid: plasticity; 5. Granular gases; 6. The granular liquid; 7. Immersed granular media; 8. Erosion and sediment transport; 9. Geomorphology; References; Index.
