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Sand swimming lizard: sandfish
Ryan D. Maladen, Yang Ding, Adam Kamor +1
We use high-speed x-ray imaging to reveal how a small (~10cm) desert dwelling lizard, the sandfish (Scincus scincus), swims within a granular medium [1]. On the surface, the lizard…
physics.flu-dyn2009
Ripples and Shear Bands in Plowed Granular Media
Nick Gravish, Paul Umbanhowar, Daniel I. Goldman
Monodisperse packings of dry, air-fluidized granular media typically exist between volume fractions from = 0.585 to 0.64. We demonstrate that the dynamics of granular drag are s…