Abstract Asteroids and other Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs) are of high general and
scientific interest in many aspects. The origin, formation, and evolution of our Solar System …

Abstract Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) equipments, with higher productivity and hybrid
heating modes, allow reducing thermal gradients in large samples and broaden their …

A new experimental facility has been designed and constructed to study driven granular
media in a low-gravity environment. This versatile instrument, fully automatized, with a …

We investigate numerically and theoretically the internal structures of a driven granular gas
in cuboidal cell geometries. Clustering is reported and particles are classified as gaseous or …

Space exploration and exploitation face a major challenge: the handling of granular
materials in low-gravity environments. Indeed, grains behave quite differently in space than …

In protoplanetary disks, zones of dense particle configuration promote planet formation.
Solid particles in dense clouds alter their motion through collective effects and back reaction …

Merging of granular flows is ubiquitous in industrial, mining, and geological processes.
However, its behavior remains poorly understood. This paper studies the phase transition …

We use a computational model to investigate the emergence of interaction forces between
pairs of intruders in a horizontally vibrated granular fluid. The time evolution of a pair of …

Asteroids and other Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs) are currently of great scientific and
even industrial interest. Asteroids exist as the permanent record of the formation of the Solar …

In order to study the dynamical behavior and the handling properties of granular materials
under microgravity conditions, ESA is developing the VIP-Gran instrument whose multiple …