Subject Code: ML6L024	Name: Granular Materials	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): None
Granular materials: the fourth state of matter, industrial importance, granular statics and flow, antiparticle forces, discrete and continuum models, balance laws, fluid–particle interaction, yield conditions, shear stress, yield surfaces, flow rules, equation for plane flow, theory for steady and plane flow, effect of wall roughness, exit condition, smooth wall and radial gravity problem for compressible flow, constitutive equations involving a yield condition for slow three-dimensional flow, constitutive equations that do not involve a yield condition, introduction to rapid flow: theory for rapid flow of smooth, inelastic particles, model for inelastic collisions, thermodynamic description of rapid granular flows, kinetic theory for a granular gas of smooth inelastic particles. Texts / Reference Books: K. KesavaRao and Prabhu R Nott, An introduction to granular flows