How granular material behaves — shifting and sifting and sliding around in miniature avalanches — may not seem like the most fascinating subject, but it is of vital importance in the real world: understanding such mechanics helps physicists model how grains move in silos, how soils collapse in earthquakes, and how certain materials and food products mix.
Not exact matches
Goldman specializes in studying
how animals manage to move through sand and other
granular materials that tend to give way.
The appearance and growth of these features resemble seeping liquid water, but
how they form remains unclear, and this research demonstrated that the RSL flows seen by HiRISE are likely moving
granular material like sand and dust.