Rupture and clustering -- The Gallery of Nonlinear Science, Chaos, Vol. 19, 041103 (2009)

Rupture and clustering in granular streams
John R. Royer, Loreto Oyarte, Matthias E. Möbius, and Heinrich M. Jaeger
http://link.aip.org/link/?CHAOEH/19/041103/1

High-speed movie of the breakup of a granular stream. The camera falls with the stream to capture the breakup of a stream of d = (107 ± 19) µm diameter glass grains falling out of a 4.0 mm nozzle. The nozzle and reservoir of grains are housed in a 2.5 m tall acrylic tube, which is sealed and evacuated to 0.03 kPa (gas mean free path ~ 200 µm) to reduce air drag.
Chaos 19, 041103 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3211191
Published 27 October 2009 at http://chaos.aip.org

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• chaos
• nonlinear science
• granular stream
• science
• physics