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Conference on Thursday March 16, 2023

Abstract

Media consisting of a large number of distinct solid particles, grains, are widespread in agricultural (such as seeds) and industrial (such as aggregates) activities, but also in nature (such as sand dunes) or on a much larger scale, in the rings of the giant planets of the solar system for example. These materials are grouped together under a generic name because their large-scale behaviors are more related to the division into multiple elements than to the shape or composition of these elements.

Renaud Delannay

Professor, researcher at the Institute of Physics of Rennes

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