Local stress fluctuations are measured in annular rapid shear flows of granular medium made of steel spheres with 2 and 3mm in diameter. Both monodisperse packing and bidisperse packing are investigated to reveal the influence of size diversity on intermittent features of granular materials....

Using computer simulations, the cooling rate of a system of inelastic hard spheres in the Couette geometry has been investigated after stopping the relative motion of boundaries. The energy of the system is initially balanced between the incoming kinetic energy from the moving boundaries and the...

Using a nonequilibrium simulation scheme, the transverse diffusive motion has been investigated in unbounded shear flows of smooth, monodisperse, inelastic spherical particles. This scheme is used to obtain the concentration gradient due to the particle mass flux, which is extracted from the...