Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2001-06-27
Phys. Rev. E 64, 051301 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
9 pages, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.64.051301
We study the effect of fluids on the angle of repose and the segregation of granular matter poured into a silo. The experiments are conducted in two regimes where: (i) the volume fraction of the fluid is small and it forms liquid bridges between particles, and (ii) the particles are completely immersed in the fluid. The data is obtained by imaging the pile formed inside a quasi-two dimensional silo through the transparent glass side walls. In the first series of experiments, the angle of repose is observed to increase sharply with the volume fraction of the fluid and then saturates at a value that depends on the size of the particles. We systematically study the effect of viscosity by using water-glycerol mixtures to vary it over at least three orders of magnitude while keeping the surface tension almost constant. Besides surface tension, the viscosity of the fluid is observed to have an effect on the angle of repose and the extent of segregation. In case of bidisperse particles, segregation is observed to decrease and finally saturate depending on the size ratio of the particles and the viscosity of the fluid. The sharp initial change and the subsequent saturation in the extent of segregation and angle of repose occurs over similar volume fraction of the fluid. In the second series of experiments, particles are poured into a container filled with a fluid. Although the angle of repose is observed to be unchanged, segregation is observed to decrease with an increase in the viscosity of the fluid.
Kudrolli Arshad
Samadani Azadeh
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