Examples:

cosmic: planetary rings protoplanetary discs/planetary evolution clouds/discs of gas and dust
terrestrial: avalanches dunes sandpiles fields of drift ice

• industrial:
  • transport of bulk material
    
  • pharmaceutics/transport of pills
    
  • silo-technologies/collapsing silos
    
  • dynamics of traffic jams
    

Physical Processes:

• dynamics of granular ensembles:
  • instabilities/structures in shearflows
    
  • "cluster"-instabilities/force-free granular gases
    
  • "dissipative cooling" via inelastic collisions
    

• models of collisions:
  • visco-elastic/plasto-elastic collisions
    
  • fragmentation-/coagulation processes
    
  • surface friction
    

Planetary Rings:

undisturbed rings: kinetic/hydrodynamic description vertical structure processes of transport instabilities/structures
perturbed rings: waves and resonances moonlets in rings e.g. satellite Pan in Saturn's A ring

Planetogony/Planet Formation:

from planetesimals to planets interaction of a planet with a protoplanetary disc

Cassini Project Poster Cassini; pdf File Participation in Spaceprobe Experiments: dustdetection: spaceprobe Galileo: DDS (Dust Detector System) spaceprobe Cassini: CDA (Cosmic Dust Analyzer) spaceprobe Ulysses: DDS ultraviolett spectroscopy: spaceprobe Cassini: UVIS (Ultra-Violet-Imaging-Spectrometer) Modelling of Dustconfigurations: Tori of Dust around Mars Population of Dust at Jupiter/rings of Jupiter Dustatmospheres of Saturns rings/ Saturns E ring/the "Spokes"-phenonemen Enceladus' Geysers and -Dust Plume: Main Source of the E Ring of Saturn Structure-formations in Dense Planetary Rings: Propeller-Structuctures caused by kilometer-sized Moonlets in Dense Rings Non-linear Diffusion, Angular-Momentum Flux reversals, and sharp Ring-Edges created by Ring-Moons Instabilities and related spontaneous Structures - ``Overstability'' and more Kinetics of Aggregation, Restitution, and Fragmentation