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Segregation and pattern formation in dilute granular media under microgravity conditions

Space exploration and exploitation face a major challenge: the handling of granular materials in low-gravity environments. Indeed, grains behave quite differently in space than on Earth, and the dissipative nature of the collisions between solid particles leads to clustering. Within poly-disperse ma...

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Autores principales: Opsomer, Eric, Noirhomme, Martial, Vandewalle, Nicolas, Falcon, Eric, Merminod, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28649623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41526-016-0009-1
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author Opsomer, Eric
Noirhomme, Martial
Vandewalle, Nicolas
Falcon, Eric
Merminod, Simon
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description Space exploration and exploitation face a major challenge: the handling of granular materials in low-gravity environments. Indeed, grains behave quite differently in space than on Earth, and the dissipative nature of the collisions between solid particles leads to clustering. Within poly-disperse materials, the question of segregation is highly relevant but has not been addressed so far in microgravity. From parabolic flight experiments on dilute binary granular media, we show that clustering can trigger a segregation mechanism, and we observe, for the first time, the formation of layered structures in the bulk.
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spelling pubmed-54455752017-06-23 Segregation and pattern formation in dilute granular media under microgravity conditions Opsomer, Eric Noirhomme, Martial Vandewalle, Nicolas Falcon, Eric Merminod, Simon NPJ Microgravity Brief Communication Space exploration and exploitation face a major challenge: the handling of granular materials in low-gravity environments. Indeed, grains behave quite differently in space than on Earth, and the dissipative nature of the collisions between solid particles leads to clustering. Within poly-disperse materials, the question of segregation is highly relevant but has not been addressed so far in microgravity. From parabolic flight experiments on dilute binary granular media, we show that clustering can trigger a segregation mechanism, and we observe, for the first time, the formation of layered structures in the bulk. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5445575/ /pubmed/28649623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41526-016-0009-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Opsomer, Eric
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title_full Segregation and pattern formation in dilute granular media under microgravity conditions
title_fullStr Segregation and pattern formation in dilute granular media under microgravity conditions
title_full_unstemmed Segregation and pattern formation in dilute granular media under microgravity conditions
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28649623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41526-016-0009-1
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