Kumar, Krishna; Falcon, Éric; Bajaj, Kapil M.S; Fauve, … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 270 (1999) 1, pp. 97-104
The shape of convective cell at the onset of heap formation in the Faraday experiment with fine granular materials is studied in a simple experiment. The motion of fine grains are found to be confined in a single thin conical cell instead of a pair of convective cells as considered previously....