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      Aggregation and sedimentation in gas-fluidized beds of cohesive powders 

      Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel (American Physical Society, 2001)
      We present measurements on the settling velocity of gas-fluidized beds of fine cohesive powders. In the solidlike regime ...
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      Cohesion and Internal Friction of Fine Glass Beads as Affected by Small Intensity Vertical Vibration 

      Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Soria del Hoyo, Carlos; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel (2009)
      We have used a novel centrifuge powder tester to obtain the angle of internal friction and cohesion of fine glass beads ...
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      Correlation between bulk stresses and interparticle contact forces in fine powders 

      Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Valverde Millán, José Manuel (American Physical Society, 2001)
      We present measurements of the tensile strength as a function of the consolidation stress for a set of fine cohesive powders ...
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      Effect of particle size and interparticle force on the fluidization behavior of gas-fluidized beds 

      Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Mills, Pierre; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel (American Physical Society, 2003)
      Gas-fluidized powders of fine particles display a fluidlike regime in which the bed does not have a yield strength, it ...
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      Effect of vibration on the stability of a gas-fluidized bed of fine powder 

      Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel (American Physical Society, 2001)
      We have investigated the effect of vibrations on the stability of gas-fluidized beds of fine powders (particle size ~10 ...
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      Electric charge limits on settled powders 

      Pérez Vaquero, Javier; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (AIP Publishing, 2016)
      In flows of dry particulate systems, electric charge is generated on particle surfaces by their collision with walls and ...
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      Electromechanics of fluidized beds of nanoparticles 

      Espín Milla, Manuel Jesús; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (American Physical Society, 2009)
      The electromechanical behavior of a gas-fluidized bed of insulating silica nanoparticles is investigated. When fluidized ...
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      Fine cohesive powders in rotating drums: Transition from rigid-plastic flow to gas-fluidized regime 

      Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel (American Physical Society, 2002)
      We investigate the dynamics of fine cohesive powders inside rotating drums. We show that these powders may be fluidized ...
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      Fluid to solid transition in magnetofluidized beds of fine powders 

      Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Espín Milla, Manuel Jesús; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (AIP Publishing, 2010)
      Experimental observations on the fluid to solid transition in beds of magnetized fine particles fluidized by gas are ...
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      Granular avalanches: Deterministic, correlated and decorrelated dynamics 

      Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Valverde Millán, José Manuel (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2004-12-15)
      A statistical analysis of granular avalanches in a half-filled and slowly rotated drum is presented. For large-sized grains ...
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      Jamming Threshold of Dry Fine Powders 

      Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (American Physical Society, 2004)
      We report a novel experimental study on the jamming transition of dry fine powders with controlled attractive energy and ...
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      Looking for Self-Organized Critical Behavior in Avalanches of Slightly Cohesive Powders 

      Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Viturro, R. Enrique (American Physical Society, 2001)
      We report results from a statistical analysis of avalanches of cohesive powders in a slowly rotated drum. Interparticle ...
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      Magnetic field induced inversion in the effect of particle size on powder cohesiveness 

      Espín Milla, Manuel Jesús; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (AIP Publishing, 2010-07)
      Experimental measurements are reported on the tensile yield stress of magnetofluidized beds of fine magnetic powders ...
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      Magnetic stabilization of fluidized beds: Effect of magnetic field orientation 

      Espín Milla, Manuel Jesús; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Valverde Millán, José Manuel (Elsevier, 2017)
      Fluidized beds of granular materials can be stabilized by interparticle attractive forces which confer the expanded bed ...
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      Magnetofluidization of fine magnetite powder 

      Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Espín Milla, Manuel Jesús; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (American Physical Society, 2009)
      The behavior of a fluidized bed of fine magnetite particles as affected by a cross-flow magnetic field is investigated. A ...
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      Mesoscopic structuring and yield stress of magnetofluidized fine particles 

      Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Espín Milla, Manuel Jesús; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2009-10)
      The fluidization behavior of a bed of fine magnetizable particles excited by an externally applied magnetic field is found ...
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      Nanofluidization electrostatics 

      Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Espín Milla, Manuel Jesús; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (American Physical Society, 2008)
      Electrostatic charging of powders is a relevant phenomenon for a number of industrial applications. The design of new ...
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      Physics of Compaction of Fine Cohesive Particles 

      Castellanos Mata, Antonio; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel (American Physical Society, 2005)
      Fluidized fractal clusters of fine particles display critical-like dynamics at the jamming transition, characterized by a ...
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      Pull-off force of coated fine powders under small consolidation 

      Chen, Yuhua; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Yang, Jun; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Dave, Rajesh N. (American Physical Society, 2009)
      In this paper, a three-dimensional model taking into account the contact deformation and surface area coverage (SAC) of ...
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      Rheology of magnetofluidized fine powders 

      Espín Milla, Manuel Jesús; Sánchez Quintanilla, Miguel Angel; Valverde Millán, José Manuel; Castellanos Mata, Antonio (2010)
      Usually a bed of solid particles °uidized by a gas is inherently unstable. Gas bubbles are rapidly formed at the onset ...