Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2009-09-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Latex, 10 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
In this work we experimentally study the behavior of a freely-rotating asymmetric probe immersed in a vibrated granular medium. For a wide variety of vibration conditions the probe exhibits a steady rotation whose direction is constant with respect to the asymmetry. By changing the vibration amplitude and by filtering the noise in different frequency bands we show that the velocity of rotation does not depend only on the RMS acceleration $\Gamma$, but also on the amount of energy provided to two separate frequency bands which are revealed to be important for the dynamics of the granular medium: the first band governs the transfer of energy from the grains to the probe, and the second affects the dynamics by altering the viscosity of the vibro-fluidized material.
Balzan Riccardo
Dalton Fergal
Loreto Vittorio
Petri Alberto
Pontuale Giorgio
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