Download or read book Disorder and Granular Media written by D. Bideau and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1993-05-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talks about the physics of the collective behavior of grains, for example forming dense packings, being in suspension in fluids. This book presents a particular aspect of granularity, starting from the geometry of irregular packings to computer modelling of flowing particles. It emphasises the important role played by disorder.