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An experimental study is made of porosity distribution in a granular bed close to one of the surfaces bounding it. It is shown that wall deformation reduces the nonuniformity of porosity and the velocity profile of the gas flow.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 578–582, April, 1982.
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Koleskin, V.N., Shtern, P.G., Turuntaev, S.V. et al. Effect of bounding surfaces on porosity distribution in a granular medium. Journal of Engineering Physics 42, 395–398 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826838
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826838