GRANULAR DYNAMICS · SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT
Order at the edge
of an avalanche.
A rotating drum. Two grain sizes. One emergent surface.
TALUSD–65PLANAR CONTACT LAB
LIVE EXPERIMENTØ 1.30 m · OPTICAL SLICE
01 / ROTATING CELLDrag to orbit · scroll to inspect
54 mm 66 mm Surface fit
SURFACE INCLINATION—signed angle to horizontal
FROUDE NUMBER—ω²R / g · inertial regime
MEAN RMS SPEED—m/s · translational motion
LIVE TELEMETRY
Surface angle over time
Collecting surface samples…
LAST 60 SIMULATED SECONDS0.0 s
A model you can inspect.
Planar soft disks with elastic normal contacts, damping and tangential contact memory. The 3D spheres show a single simulated layer.
Educational approximation · no calibrated material prediction.