# Mesoscopic Physics of Granular Flows

## Acknowledgements

We thank Georges Debregeas, Cristophe Josserand, Dan Mueth, Sidney Nagel, Heinrich Jaeger, Leo P. Kadanoff, Tomas A. Witten for fruitful discussions. This work was supported in part by MRSEC Program of National Science Foundation under Award Number NSF DMR-9808595.