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Transient Elasticity -- A Unifying Framework for Thixotropy, Polymers, and Granular Media
Mario Liu
Thixotropic yield stress fluids, such as paint or ketchup, are traditionally viewed as elastic structures that, under shear rates, break into viscous liquids with lumps, and reconn…
A Thermodynamic Treatment\\ of Partially Saturated Soils \\ Revealing the Structure of Effective Stress
Yimin Jiang, Itai Einav, Mario Liu
A rigorous thermodynamic treatment of partially saturated soils is developed using a minimal number of assumptions. The derivation is carried out in a way that does not require to…
Temperatures in Grains and Plasma
Mario Liu
Grains are widely assumed to be characterized by a single temperature -- derived either from the configurational entropy, or employing the kinetic theory. Yet granular media do hav…
Superfluid Dynamics, Equilibrium Conditions, and Centripetal Forces
Mario Liu
Thermodynamics of superfluids is revisited, clarifying two points. First, the density and pressure distribution for given equilibrium velocities is obtained, with the finding that…
Similarities between GSH, Hypoplasticity and KCR
Yimin Jiang, Mario Liu
Accounting for elasto-plastic motion in granular media, hypoplasticity is a state-of-the-art constitutive model derived from data accumulated over many decades. In contrast, GSH, a…
Why Granular Media Are Thermal, and Quite Normal, After All
Yimin Jiang, Mario Liu
Two approaches exist to account for granular dynamics: The athermal one takes grains as elementary, the thermal one considers the total entropy that includes microscopic degrees of…