Luck, J. M.; Mehta, A. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 57 (2007) 4, pp. 429-451
Granular media jam into a panoply of metastable states. The way in which these states are achieved depends on the nature of local and global constraints on grains; here we investigate this issue by means of a non-equilibrium stochastic model of a hindered granular column near its jamming limit....