Granular Materials
- M. Bretz, J. Cunningham, P. Kurczynski, F. Nori
Imaging of avalanches in granular materials
Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 2431 (1992). [PDF][Link]
- V.G. Benza, F. Nori, O. Pla
Mean field theory of sandpile avalanches: From the intermittent to the continuous flow regime
Phys. Rev. E 48, 4095 (1993). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
- F. Nori, P. Sholtz, M. Bretz
Booming sand
Scientific American 277, No. 3 (84) (1997). [PDF][Link]
Also available in Japanese (color version), Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Polish and Arabic.
- P. Sholtz, M. Bretz, F. Nori
Sound-producing sand avalanches
Contemporary Physics 38, No. 5, 329 (1997). [PDF][Link]
- G. D'Anna, P. Mayor, A. Barrat, V. Loreto, F. Nori
Observing Brownian motion in vibro-fluidized granular matter
Nature 424, 909-912 (2003). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
This article (featured all over via press, newswires, radio, and TV) is the Cover Story of the 21 August, 2003, issue of Nature. Also featured in that issue in the table of contents and via a companion "News and Views" [PDF][Link].
- N. Mitarai, F. Nori
Wet granular materials
Advances in Physics 55, 1-45 (2006). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
- C. Cattuto, R. Brito, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, F. Nori, R. Soto
Fluctuation-induced Casimir forces in granular fluids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 178001 (2006). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
- M. Bretz, R. Zaretzki, S.B. Field, N. Mitarai, F. Nori
Broad distribution of stick-slip events in slowly sheared granular media: Table-top production of a Gutenberg-Richter-like distribution
Europhys. Lett. 74, 1116-1122 (2006). [PDF][Link][arXiv]