Transport and Fluctuations in Granular Fluids

This brief offers a concise presentation of granular fluids from the  point of view of non-equilibrium statistical physics. The emphasis is on fluctuations, which can be large in granular fluids due to the small system size (the number of grains is many orders of magnitude smaller than in molecular fluids).

Firstly, readers will be introduced to the most intriguing experiments on fluidized granular...