@inbook{8136bb63f36946cb8549e487a8b74528,
title = "Birth and sudden death of a granular cluster",
abstract = "Granular material is vibro-fluidized in N connected compartments. For sufficiently strong shaking the particles are statistically uniformly distributed over the compartments, but if the shaking intensity is lowered this uniform distribution gives way to a clustered state. The clustering transition is experimentally shown to be of 2nd order for N = 2 compartments and of 1st order for . In particular, the latter is hysteretic, involves long-lived transient states, and exhibits a striking lack of time reversibility. In the strong shaking regime, a cluster breaks down very abruptly and in its further decay shows anomalous diffusion, with the length scale going as t1/3 rather than the standard t1/2. We focus upon the self-similar nature of this process. The observed phenomena are all accounted for within a flux model.",
author = "{van der Weele}, Ko and {van der Meer}, Devaraj and Detlef Lohse",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-39843-1_14",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-642-05757-1",
series = "Lecture Notes in Physics",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "335--346",
editor = "Thorsten P{\"o}schel and Nikolai Brilliantov",
booktitle = "Granular Gas Dynamics",
address = "Netherlands",
}