Shear bands in granular flow through a mixing length model

Details Shear bands in granular flow through a mixing length model Shear bands in granular flow through a mixing length model

2007-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/0705.3726v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

submitted to EPL

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/80/34004

We discuss the advantages and results of using a mixing-length, compressible model to account for shear banding behaviour in granular flow. We formulate a general approach based on two function of the solid fraction to be determined. Studying the vertical chute flow, we show that shear band thickness is always independent from flowrate in the quasistatic limit, for Coulomb wall boundary conditions. The effect of bin width is addressed using the functions developed by Pouliquen and coworkers, predicting a linear dependence of shear band thickness by channel width, while literature reports contrasting data. We also discuss the influence of wall roughness on shear bands. Through a Coulomb wall friction criterion we show that our model correctly predicts the effect of increasing wall roughness on the thickness of shear bands. Then a simple mixing-length approach to steady granular flows can be useful and representative of a number of original features of granular flow.

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