Granular gravitational collapse and chute flow

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2002-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0206046v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

LaTeX2e with epl class, 7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Europhysics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2002-00307-8

Inelastic grains in a flow under gravitation tend to collapse into states in which the relative normal velocities of two neighboring grains is zero. If the time scale for this gravitational collapse is shorter than inverse strain rates in the flow, we propose that this collapse will lead to the formation of ``granular eddies", large scale condensed structures of particles moving coherently with one another. The scale of these eddies is determined by the gradient of the strain rate. Applying these concepts to chute flow of granular media, (gravitationally driven flow down inclined planes) we predict the existence of a bulk flow region whose rheology is determined only by flow density. This theory yields the experimental ``Pouliquen flow rule", correlating different chute flows; it also correctly accounts for the different flow regimes observed.

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