Phase Diagram of Vertically Shaken Granular Matter
arXiv:physics/0608283 · doi:10.1063/1.2815745
Abstract
A shallow, vertically shaken granular bed in a quasi 2-D container is studied experimentally yielding a wider variety of phenomena than in any previous study: (1) bouncing bed, (2) undulations, (3) granular Leidenfrost effect, (4) convection rolls, and (5) granular gas. These phenomena and the transitions between them are characterized by dimensionless control parameters and combined in a full experimental phase diagram.
11 pages, 14 figures, submitted to "Physics of Fluids"