Cohesive granular materials such as wet sand, snow, and powders can flow like a viscous
liquid. However, the elementary mechanisms of momentum transport in such athermal …

This paper aims to understand the effect of different particle/contact properties like friction,
softness and cohesion on the compression/dilation of sheared granular materials. We focus …

Providing a detailed and pedagogical account of the rapidly-growing field of computational
statistical physics, this book covers both the theoretical foundations of equilibrium and non …

This chapter suggests that new shapes of primordial living systems may have emerged via
tensegrity mechanisms. As a physical model, it explores the emergence of shape using …

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 …

Much confusion exists on whether force‐or energy‐based descriptions of cohesive‐particle
interactions are more appropriate. We hypothesize a force‐based description is appropriate …

We treat the case of an undriven gas of inelastic hard-spheres with short-ranged attractive
potentials via an extension of the pseudo-Liouville operator formalism. New evolution …

By using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of dense granular particles in two
dimensions, we study turbulent-like structures of their non-affine velocities under simple …

We present an in-depth study on the restitution coefficient and sticking behavior of two
models commonly used in the Discrete Element Method (DEM) community for simulating …

Three-dimensional molecular-dynamics simulations of cohesive dissipative powders under
a plane shear are performed. We find the various phases depending on the dimensionless …