We review flows of dense cohesionless granular materials, with a special focus on the
question of constitutive equations. We first discuss the existence of a dense flow regime …

Granular materials are ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they have been the subject of
intensive engineering research for centuries, in the last two decades granular matter has …

Sand, 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 …

The behaviour of dense assemblies of dry grains submitted to continuous shear deformation
has been the subject of many experiments and discrete particle simulations. This paper is a …

Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide
variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance. Examples include …

A continuum description of granular flows would be of considerable help in predicting
natural geophysical hazards or in designing industrial processes. However, the constitutive …

This review addresses recent developments in non-equilibrium statistical physics. Focusing
on phase transitions from fluctuating phases into absorbing states, the universality class of …

“The career structure and funding of the universities [...] currently strongly discourages
academics and faculties from putting any investment into teaching–there are no career or …

Most studies on granular physics have focused on dry granular media, with no liquids
between the grains. However, in geology and many real world applications (eg food …

In 438 alphabetically-arranged essays, this work provides a useful overview of the core
mathematical background for nonlinear science, as well as its applications to key problems …