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A kinetic equation for granular media

1999; EDP Sciences; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1051/m2an

1290-3841

Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti, Mario Pulvirenti,

Soil and Unsaturated Flow

In this short note we correct a conceptual error in the heuristic derivation of a kinetic equation used for the description of a one-dimensional granular medium in the so called quasi-elastic limit, presented by the same authors in reference[1]. The equation we derived is however correct so that, the rigorous analysis on this equation, which constituted the main purpose of that paper, remains unchanged.