Physics of Soft Impact and Cratering

• Main Author: Katsuragi, Hiroaki (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 910
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Geophysics.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

This book focuses on the impact dynamics and cratering of soft matter to describe its importance, difficulty, and wide applicability to planetary-related problems. A comprehensive introduction to the dimensional analysis and constitutive laws that are necessary to discuss impact mechanics and crater...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Scaling and dimensional analysis
• Constitutive laws
• Soft drag force
• Morphology of planetary impact craters
• Soft impact cratering
• Grains and dust dynamics
• Perspectives.