Granular materials are a special topic of recent research and are a milestone of science and technology. These materials are very simple: they are large conglom

Granular materials are a special topic of recent research and are a milestone of science and technology. These materials are very simple: they are large conglom

Talks about the physics of the collective behavior of grains, for example forming dense packings, being in suspension in fluids. This book presents a particular

Focussing on the basic mechanics and underlying physics of granular material, Mechanics of Granular Matter starts with an introduction to contact mechanics of i

Information granules, as encountered in natural language, are implicit in nature. To make them fully operational so they can be effectively used to analyze and