Granular materials are an integral part of our everyday life. They are also thebase material for most industrial processing techniques. The highly dissipativena... » 

Granular materials are an integral part of our everyday life. They are also thebase material for most industrial processing techniques. The highly dissipativenature of the particle collisions means energy input is needed in order tomobilize the grains. This interplay of dissipation and excitation leads to awide variety of pattern formation processes which are addressed in this book.The reader is introduced to this wide field by first a description of thematerial properties of granular materials under different experimentalconditions that are important in connection with the pattern formation dynamicsand second by further details given later on in the description of thespecific system. TOCIntroduction. Some Experimental Phenomena of GranularMaterials. Vertical Shaking. Horizontal Shaking. Stratification. ConicalHopper. Rotating Drum. Concluding Remarks and Outlook. Numerical Methodsused to Study Granular Materials. «