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  1. Normal stress differences and beyond-Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2017, EDP Sciences

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  2. Normal stress differences, their origin and constitutive relations for a sheared granular fluid

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  3. Plane shock waves and Haff’s law in a granular gas

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  4. Nonlinear instability and convection in a vertically vibrated granular bed

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  5. Non-Newtonian stress, collisional dissipation and heat flux in the shear flow of inelastic disks: a reduction via Grad’s moment method

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  6. Higher-order effects on orientational correlation and relaxation dynamics in homogeneous cooling of a rough granular gas

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  7. Variable-cell method for stress-controlled jamming of athermal, frictionless grains

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  8. Buoyancy driven convection in vertically shaken granular matter: experiment, numerics, and theory

    Article • Granular Matter, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  9. Nonlinear vorticity-banding instability in granular plane Couette flow: higher-order Landau coefficients, bistability and the bifurcation scenario

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, February 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  10. Nonlinear stability, bifurcation and vortical patterns in three-dimensional granular plane Couette flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  11. Shearbanding and inhomogeneous states in granular fluid

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  12. Patterns and velocity field in vertically vibrated granular materials

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  13. Origin of subcritical shear-banding instability in a dense two-dimensional sheared granular fluid

    Article • Granular Matter, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  14. Non-Modal Stability and Optimal Perturbations in Unbounded Granular Shear Flow: Three-Dimensionality and Particle Spin

    Article • Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, January 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  15. Isostaticity of constraints in amorphous jammed systems of soft frictionless Platonic solids

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  16. Effect of Coulomb friction on orientational correlation and velocity distribution functions in a sheared dilute granular gas

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam, Bishakhdatta Gayen

  17. Nonlinear stability and patterns in granular plane Couette flow: Hopf and pitchfork bifurcations, and evidence for resonance

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, February 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  18. Athermal jamming of soft frictionless Platonic solids

    Article • Physical Review E, November 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  19. Weakly nonlinear theory of shear-banding instability in a granular plane Couette flow: analytical solution, comparison with numerics and bifurcation

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  20. Velocity distribution function and correlations in a granular Poiseuille flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  21. Onset of Convection in Strongly Shaken Granular Matter

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  22. Density waves and the effect of wall roughness in granular Poiseuille flow: Simulationand linear stability

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  23. Slip velocity and stresses in granular Poiseuille flow via event-driven simulation

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  24. Landau-type Order Parameter Equation for Shear Banding in Granular Couette Flow

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  25. Universality of shear-banding instability and crystallization in sheared granular fluid

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  26. Instabilities and patterns in horizontally oscillating particulate suspension

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  27. Linear stability, transient energy growth, and the role of viscosity stratification in compressible plane Couette flow

    Article • Physical Review E, March 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  28. Orientational Correlation and Velocity Distributions in Uniform Shear Flow of a Dilute Granular Gas

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  29. Effects of Prandtl number and a new instability mode in a plane thermal plume

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  30. Velocity distribution and the effect of wall roughness in granular Poiseuille flow

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  31. Algebraic and exponential instabilities in a sheared micropolar granular fluid

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam, Bishakhdatta Gayen

  32. Hydrodynamic theory for reverse brazil nut segregation and the non-monotonic ascension dynamics

    Article • Journal of Statistical Physics, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  33. Streamwise structures and density patterns in rapid granular Couette flow: a linear stability analysis

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  34. Rheology of Two- and Three-dimensional Granular Mixtures Under Uniform Shear Flow: Enskog Kinetic Theory Versus Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Article • Granular Matter, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  35. Nonmodal energy growth and optimal perturbations in compressible plane Couette flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  36. Energy nonequipartition, rheology, and microstructure in sheared bidisperse granular mixtures

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  37. Instability-induced ordering, universal unfolding and the role of gravity in granular Couette flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  38. Segregation in a fluidized binary granular mixture: Competition between buoyancy and geometric forces

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), October 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  39. First normal stress difference and crystallization in a dense sheared granular fluid

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  40. Rheology of bidisperse granular mixtures via event-driven simulations

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, February 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  41. How good is the equipartition assumption for the transport properties of a granular mixture?

    Article • Granular Matter, December 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  42. Kinetic theory of a binary mixture of nearly elastic disks with size and mass disparity

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  43. Inelastic collapse in simple shear flow of a granular medium

    Article • May 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  44. The effect of boundaries on the plane Couette flow of granular materials: a bifurcation analysis

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  45. SHEAR-FLOW AND MATERIAL INSTABILITIES IN PARTICULATE SUSPENSIONS AND GRANULAR MEDIA

    Article • Particulate Science And Technology, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  46. Stability of plane Couette flow of a granular material

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, December 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  47. The influence of friction on the stability of unbounded granular shear flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam

  48. Observations on transition in plane bubble plumes

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Meheboob Alam