Publications

@article{b,
title = {Brownian motor in a granular medium},
author = {Riccardo Balzan and Fergal Dalton and Vittorio Loreto and Alberto Petri and Giorgio Pontuale},
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year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS},
volume = {83},
publisher = {pubblicata da: AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC, ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE, COLLEGE PK, USA, MD, 20740-3844},
abstract = {In this work we experimentally study the behavior of a freely rotating asymmetric probe immersed in a vibrated granular medium. For a wide variety of vibration conditions the probe exhibits a steady rotation whose direction is constant with respect to the asymmetry. By changing the vibration amplitude and by filtering the noise in different frequency bands we show that the velocity of rotation depends not only on the RMS acceleration Γ, but also on the amount of energy provided to two separate frequency bands, which are revealed to be important for the dynamics of the granular medium: The first band governs the transfer of energy from the grains to the probe, and the second affects the dynamics by altering the viscosity of the vibro-fluidized material. © 2011 American Physical Society.},
keywords = {balzan, dalton, granular_media, loreto, petri},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}