Zu Chongzhi Distinguished Lecture ——Math-Physics Series
Jul 16, 2020 9:00 – 10:30 am, US Eastern time; 9:00 – 10:30 pm, China time
Surprises in Dilute Granular Materials
Jonathan James Wylie, City University of Hong Kong
Abstract: We present two problems that superficially appear to be extremely simple, but yield surprisingly rich dynamics. Firstly, we consider a dilute stream of particles that collides with an oblique planar wall. Secondly, we show several surprising phenomena that occur in an extremely simple system of a single frictionless, inelastic, spherical particle falling under gravity through a symmetric funnel.
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