General aspects of the Fluctuation–Dissipation Relation (FDR), and Response Theory are
considered. After analyzing the conceptual and historical relevance of fluctuations in …

▪ Abstract The recent avalanche of research activity in the field of granular matter has yielded
much progress. The use of state-of-the-art (and other) computational and experimental …

Sand, rice, sugar, snow, cement... Although ubiquitous in our daily lives, granular media still
challenge engineers and fascinate researchers. This book provides the state-of-the-art of the …

Granular materials are ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they have been the subject of
intensive engineering research for centuries, in the last two decades granular matter has …

We review the general aspects of the concept of temperature in equilibrium and non-
equilibrium statistical mechanics. Although temperature is an old and well-established …

The revised Enskog theory for inelastic hard spheres is considered as a model for rapid flow
granular media at finite densities. A normal solution is obtained via the Chapman-Enskog …

Under certain conditions, two samples of fluid at different initial temperatures present a
counterintuitive behavior known as the Mpemba effect: it is the hotter system that cools …

Motivated by recent simulations and by experiments on aggregation of gliding bacteria, we
study a model of the collective dynamics of self-propelled hard rods on a substrate in two …

" Granular Gases" are diluted many-particle systems in which the mean free path of the
particles is much larger than the typical particle size, and where particle collisions occur …

The goal of this article is to provide a somewhat critical introduction to the concept of
granular temperature and some of its applications. A brief history of the concept is followed …