The research on granular materials
has experienced an important growth
in the last few years. Such growth
is a consequence of the diversity of
interesting physical phenomena observed
when granular materials are involved, like
convection, stress propagation and anomalous
flows. Besides these facts, there are numerous
industrial processes of economical
interest where granular materials play
a central role. Examples of these
processes can be found in agriculture,
mining and pharmaceutical industry among others.
Our group is focusing the granular materials
research in four phenomena: the flow of granular
materials under the gravity influence, the
propagation of solitons in one dimensional
granular materials, fine powders running uphill
and solid-fluid phase transition under shear....
