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20132026
most citedSilo discharge of mixtures of soft and rigid grains

25 citations

9 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Collective dynamics of macroscopic photoactive matter under alternating excitation patterns

Sára Lévay, Axel Katona, Raúl Cruz Hidalgo +1

We present experiments on the collective dynamics of macroscopic photoactive self-propelled particles subjected to spatiotemporally varying excitation. The particles move within an…

cond-mat.other2025

Pressure dynamics in the bottleneck flow of self-propelled particles

N Colantuono, M Ramdan Ferressini, I Zuriguel +2

We present an experimental investigation of the pressure dynamics during the flow of self-propelled particles through narrow passages. When the ensemble is flowing, pressure fluctu…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 2 cited

Transverse vortices induced by modulated granular shear flows of elongated particles

Sára Lévay, Philippe Claudin, Ellák Somfai +1

We perform discrete element method (DEM) simulations of elongated grains in a shear cell for various particle aspect ratios and contact frictions, with an additional heterogeneous…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 4 cited

Cluster dynamics in macroscopic photoactive particles

Sára Lévay, Axel Katona, Hartmut Löwen +2

We present an experimental study on the collective behavior of macroscopic self-propelled particles that are externally excited by light. This property allows testing the system re…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 2 cited

Efficient transport controlled by biharmonic frictional driving

Martin Maza-Cuello, Diego Maza

Dry friction has been proposed as a rectifying mechanism allowing mass transport over a vibrating surface, even when vibrations are horizontal and unbiased. It has been suggested t…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 17 cited

Effect of particle shape on the flow of an hourglass

Bo Fan, Tivadar Pongó, Raúl Cruz Hidalgo +1

The flow rate of a granulate out of a cylindrical container is studied as a function of particle shape for flat and elongated ellipsoids experimentally and numerically. We find a n…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 25 cited

Silo discharge of mixtures of soft and rigid grains

Jing Wang, Bo Fan, Tivadar Pongó +6

We study the outflow dynamics and clogging phenomena of mixtures of soft, elastic low-friction spherical grains and hard frictional spheres of similar size in a quasi-two-dimension…

cond-mat.soft2018

Entropy-Driven Attraction of Heavy Spheres in a Harmonically Driven Bath of Poppy Seeds

J. M. Schins

We develop the simplest possible theory that gives reason of the recent experimental observations that two heavy spheres, immersed into a mono-layer bath of poppy seeds, attract on…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 2 cited

A topological method to characterize tapped granular media from the position of the particles

Sergio Ardanza-Trevijano, Iker Zuriguel, Roberto Arevalo +1

We use the first Betti number of a complex to characterize the morphological structure of granular samples in mechanical equilibrium. We analyze two-dimensional granular packings a…