109 citations
3 papers
cond-mat.soft2009★ 109 cited
Role of vibrations in the jamming and unjamming of grains discharging from a silo
Cristian Mankoc, Angel Garcimartin, Iker Zuriguel +2
We present experimental results of the jamming of non-cohesive particles discharged from a flat bottomed silo subjected to vertical vibration. When the exit orifice is only a few g…
nlin.PS2008★ 16 cited
Subcritical instabilities in a convective fluid layer under a quasi-1D heating
Montserrat A. Miranda, Javier Burguete
The study and characterization of the diversity of spatiotemporal patterns generated when a rectangular layer of fluid is locally heated beneath its free surface is presented. We f…
physics.flu-dyn2007★ 91 cited
Slow dynamics in a turbulent von Kármán swirling flow
Alberto de la Torre, Javier Burguete
We present an experimental study of a turbulent von Kármán flow produced in a cylindrical container using two propellers. The mean flow is stationary up to , where a bif…