Namiko Mitarai, Hiizu Nakanishi
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(1 April 2001)
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We study numerically the stability of granular flow on a rough slope in collisional flow regime
in the two-dimension. We examine the density dependence of the flowing behavior in low
density region, and demonstrate that the particle collisions stabilize the steady flow above a
certain density in the parameter region where a single particle would show an accelerated
behavior. Within this collisional steady flow regime, however, the uniform steady flow is only
metastable and is shown to be unstable against clustering when the particle density is not
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