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SUBMITTER: Mehta A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2448822 | biostudies-other | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Mehta A A Barker G C GC Luck J M JM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080609 24
The absence of Brownian motion in granular media is a source of much complexity, including the prevalence of heterogeneity, whether static or dynamic, within a given system. Such strong heterogeneities can exist as a function of depth in a box of grains; this is the system we study here. First, we present results from three-dimensional, cooperative and stochastic Monte Carlo shaking simulations of spheres on heterogeneous density fluctuations. Next, we juxtapose these with results obtained from ...[more]