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Statistical mechanics of fluidized granular media: short-range velocity correlations

R Soto1, M Mareschal

  • 1CECAM, ENS-Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, France.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|April 20, 2001
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