Metastability of a granular surface in a spinning bucket

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1998-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9803112v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages with postscript figures, RevTex, to appear in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.57.4528

The surface shape of a spinning bucket of granular material is studied using a continuum model of surface flow developed by Bouchaud et al. and Mehta et al. An experimentally observed central subcritical region is reproduced by the model. The subcritical region occurs when a metastable surface becomes unstable via a nonlinear instability mechanism. The nonlinear instability mechanism destabilizes the surface in large systems while a linear instability mechanism is relevant for smaller systems. The range of angles in which the granular surface is metastable vanishes with increasing system size.

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