Since the subject of traffic dynamics has captured the interest of physicists, many surprising
effects have been revealed and explained. Some of the questions now understood are the …

This paper reviews the use of discrete particle models (DPMs) for the study of the flow
phenomena prevailing in fluidized beds. DPMs describe the gas-phase as a continuum …

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 …

This introductory text develops the fundamental physics of the behavior of granular
materials. It covers the basic properties of flow, friction, and fluidization of uniform granular …

Computer Simulations belong to the most important methods for the theoretical investigation
of granular materials. The present book is intended to serve as an introduction to the field …

▪ Abstract The recent avalanche of research activity in the field of granular matter has yielded
much progress. The use of state-of-the-art (and other) computational and experimental …

We investigate the role of conflicts in pedestrian traffic, ie, situations where two or more
people try to enter the same space. Therefore a recently introduced cellular automaton …

Granulated materials, like sand and sugar and salt, are composed of many pieces that can
move independently. The study of collisions and flow in these materials requires new …

We study the scheme of formal arcs on a singular algebraic variety and its images under
truncations. We prove a rationality result for the Poincare series of these images which is an …

Numerical models of gas-fluidized beds have become an important tool in the design and
scale up of gas-solid chemical reactors. However, a single numerical model which includes …