Granular Matter

期刊简介：Although many phenomena observed in granular materials are still not yet fully understood, important contributions have been made to further our understanding using modern tools from statistical mechanics, micro-mechanics, and computational science.These modern tools apply to disordered systems, phase transitions, instabilities or intermittent behavior and the performance of discrete particle simulations.>> Until now, however, many of these results were only to be found scattered throughout the literature. Physicists are often unaware of the theories and results published by engineers or other fields - and vice versa.The journal Granular Matter thus serves as an interdisciplinary platform of communication among researchers of various disciplines who are involved in the basic research on granular media. It helps to establish a common language and gather articles under one single roof that up to now have been spread over many journals in a variety of fields. Notwithstanding, highly applied or technical work is beyond the scope of this journal.

【译文】尽管许多颗粒材料的现象仍尚未完全理解，但通过使用统计力学、微观力学和计算科学的现代工具，我们已经做出了重要贡献，以进一步加深我们对这些现象的理解。这些现代工具适用于无序系统、相变、不稳定性或间歇行为以及离散粒子模拟的性能。然而，到目前为止，许多这些结果都只是散布在文献中。物理学家往往不知道工程师或其他领域发表的理论和结果——反之亦然。因此，《颗粒物质》杂志作为涉及颗粒介质基础研究的各个学科研究人员之间的跨学科交流平台，有助于建立一个共同的语言，并将至今已分散在众多期刊中的文章汇集在一起。尽管如此，高度应用或技术性工作仍不在本期刊的范围内。