Flow rule, self-channelization and levees in unconfined granular flows

Details Flow rule, self-channelization and levees in unconfined granular flows Flow rule, self-channelization and levees in unconfined granular flows

2006-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604360v3

PRL 97, 158303 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.158303

Unconfined granular flows along an inclined plane are investigated experimentally. During a long transient, the flow gets confined by quasistatic banks but still spreads laterally towards a well-defined asymptotic state following a nontrivial process. Far enough from the banks a scaling for the depth averaged velocity is obtained, which extends the one obtained for homogeneous steady flows. Close to jamming it exhibits a crossover towards a nonlocal rheology. We show that the levees, commonly observed along the sides of the deposit upon interruption of the flow, disappear for long flow durations. We demonstrate that the morphology of the deposit builds up during the flow, in the form of an underlying static layer, which can be deduced from surface velocity profiles, by imposing the same flow rule everywhere in the flow.

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