Wet granular matter: a truly complex fluid

by Herminghaus, S., (Stephan)

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Full title :Wet granular matter : a truly complex fluid / Stephan Herminghaus.

Summary

This is a monograph written for the young and advanced researcher who is entering the field of wet granular matter and keen to understand the basic physical principles governing this state of soft matter. It treats wet granulates as an instance of a ternary system, consisting of the grains, a primary, and a secondary fluid. After addressing wetting phenomena in general and outlining the basic facts on dry granular systems, a chapter on basic mechanisms and their effects is dedicated to every region of the ternary phase diagram. Effects of grain shape and roughness are considered as well. Rather than addressing engineering aspects such as existing books on this topic do, the book aims to provide a generalized framework suitable for those who want to understand these systems on a more fundamental basis.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):World Scientific Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Singapore
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages) : : illustrations (some color).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789814417709, 981441770X, 9789814417716, 9814417718
oclc:ocn860388431
LC Classification:QC173.458.S62
Dewey Decimal:530.413

1. Introduction. 1.1. The significance of wet granular matter. 1.2. Energy scales. 1.3. Typical questions to be asked. 1.4. How we shall proceed -- 2. Grains and granular fluids. 2.1. Grains. 2.2. Granular fluids. 2.3. Conclusions -- 3. Wetting. 3.1. Planar substrates. 3.2. Rough substrates. 3.3. Conclusions -- 4. Capillary forces. 4.1. Capillary bridge between flat walls. 4.2. Capillary bridge between spherical bodies. 4.3. Capillary bridge between irregular grains. 4.4. Force networks. 4.5. Conclusions -- 5. Wet granular gases. 5.1. Dynamical aspects of capillary bridges. 5.2. Free cooling and clustering. 5.3. Liquid-gas coexistence. 5.4. Collective phenomena far from thermal equilibrium. 5.5. Conclusions -- 6. Wet granular piles. 6.1. Geometrical aspects of granular piles. 6.2. Regimes of wetness. 6.3. Mechanical properties of wet granular piles. 6.4. Phase transitions in wet granular piles. 6.5. Conclusions -- 7. Special topics. 7.1. The physics of sand castles. 7.2. Immiscible granular suspensions. 7.3. Quicksand and quickclay.

Subjects

Granular materials -- Mechanical proper… Granular materials -- Permeability Matériaux granulaires -- Propriétés méc… Matière molle (Physique) SCIENCE -- Energy SCIENCE -- Mechanics SCIENCE -- Physics SOFT CONDENSED MATTER Wetting