It is well-recognized that granular media under rapid flow conditions can be modeled as a
gas of hard spheres with inelastic collisions. At moderate densities, a fundamental basis for …

Concepts of everyday use such as energy, heat, and temperature have acquired a precise
meaning after the development of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics provides the basis for …

The homogeneous cooling state for a binary mixture of inelastic hard spheres is studied
using the Enskog kinetic theory. In the same way as for the one-component fluid, we …

In contrast to normal fluids, a granular fluid under shear supports a steady state with uniform
temperature and density since the collisional cooling can compensate locally for viscous …

The development of an applicable theory for granular matter—with both qualitative and
quantitative value—is a challenging prospect, given the multitude of states, phases and …

Geophysical granular materials display a wide variety of behaviors and features. Typically,
granular flows (1) are multiphase flows,(2) are very dissipative over many different scales,(3) …

Over the past decades, kinetic description of granular materials has received a lot of
attention in mathematical community and applied fields such as physics and engineering …

Some transport properties of granular gases are investigated. Starting from a kinetic theory
level of description, the hydrodynamic transport equations to Navier-Stokes order are …

Due to the mathematical complexity of the Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres, a
kinetic model has recently been proposed whereby the collision rate (which is proportional …

We study the stochastic motion of an intruder in a dilute driven granular gas. All particles are
coupled to a thermostat, representing the external energy source, which is the sum of …