Jamming and growth of dynamical heterogeneities versus depth for granular heap flow

Details Jamming and growth of dynamical heterogeneities versus depth for granular heap flow Jamming and growth of dynamical heterogeneities versus depth for granular heap flow

2010-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/1001.3811v1

Soft Matter 6, 3023-9 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1039/b918991b

We report on grain dynamics versus depth for steady-state gravity-driven flow of grains along a heap formed between two parallel sidewalls. Near the surface the flow is steady and fast, while far below there is no flow whatsoever; therefore, a jamming transition occurs where depth is an effective control parameter for setting the distance from the transition. As seen previously, the time-averaged velocity profile along the sidewall exhibits a nearly exponential decay vs depth. Using speckle-visiblility spectroscopy (SVS), we find that velocity fluctuations grow relative to the average on approach to jamming. Introducing an image-based order parameter and the variance in its temporal decay at a given depth, we also characterize the spatially heterogeneous nature of the dynamics and find that it increases on approach to jamming. In particular, the important time and length scales for dynamical heterogeneities are found to grow almost exponentially as a function of depth. These dynamical changes occur without noticeable change in structure, and are compared to behavior found by experiment and simulation elsewhere in order to test the universality of the jamming concept. In particular we find that the size of the heterogeneities scales as the inertia number raised to the -1/3 power, in agreement with two recent simulations.

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