The Enskog kinetic theory is used as a starting point to model a suspension of solid particles
in a viscous gas. Unlike previous efforts for similar suspensions, the gas-phase contribution …

This paper investigates the fluidized granular materials (FGM) with the van der Waals
normal form (VDWF) under the effects of friction and viscosity. The system of macroscopic …

Confined granular fluids, placed in a shallow box that is vibrated vertically, can achieve
homogeneous stationary states due to energy injection mechanisms that take place …

Granular gases demand models capable of capturing their distinct characteristics. The
widely employed inelastic hard-sphere model (IHSM) introduces complexities that are …

The transport coefficients of a granular fluid driven by a stochastic bath with friction are
obtained by solving the inelastic Enskog kinetic equation from the Chapman-Enskog …

Analytical solutions of the van der Waals normal form for fluidized granular media have been
done to study the phase separation phenomenon by using two different exact methods. The …

Recently, attention has been drawn to the CGDEM (coarse-grained discrete element
method) as a valuable option to circumvent the cost of classic DEM (discrete element …

An intriguing phenomenon displayed by granular flows and predicted by kinetic-theory-
based models is the instability known as particle “clustering,” which refers to the tendency of …

In its simplest statistical-mechanical description, a granular fluid can be modeled as
composed of smooth inelastic hard spheres (with a constant coefficient of normal restitution …

The Navier-Stokes transport coefficients of a granular dense fluid of smooth inelastic hard
disks or spheres are explicitly determined by solving the inelastic Enskog equation by …