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Numerical simulation of 2D steady granular flows in rotating drum: On surface flows rheology

Mathieu Renouf 1, Daniel Bonamy () 2, Frederic Dubois 3, Pierre Alart 3

Physics of Fluids 17 (2005) 103303

  • 1:  SIAMES (INRIA - IRISA)

  • CNRS : UMR6074 – INRIA – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) - Rennes – Université de Rennes 1 France
  • 2:  Service de Physique et de Chimie des Surfaces et Interfaces (SPCSI)
  • http://www-drecam.cea.fr/spcsi/
    CEA : DSM/IRAMIS DSM/DRECAM/SPCSI, CEA Saclay F-91191 Gif sur Yvette France
  • 3:  Laboratoire de mécanique et génie civil (LMGC)
  • http://www.lmgc.univ-montp2.fr
    CNRS : UMR5508 – Université Montpellier II - Sciences et techniques case courrier 048 Place Eugène Bataillon 34095 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 5 France

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  • Type of document: Articles in peer-reviewed journal
  • Subject: Physics/Condensed Matter/Soft Condensed Matter
  • Title: Numerical simulation of 2D steady granular flows in rotating drum: On surface flows rheology
  • Abstract: The rheology of 2D steady surface flow of cohesionless cylinders in a rotating drum is investigated through {\em Non Smooth Contact Dynamics} simulations. Profile of volume fraction, translational and angular velocity, rms velocity, strain rate and stress tensor were measured at the midpoint along the length of the surface flowing layer where the flow is generally considered as steady and homogeneous. Analysis of these data and their inter-relations suggest the local inertial number - defined as the ratio between local inertial forces and local confinement forces - to be the relevant dimensionless parameter to describe the transition from the quasi-static part of the packing to the flowing part at the surface of the heap. Variations of the components of the stress tensor as well as the ones of rms velocity as a function of the inertial number are analysed within both the quasi-static and the flowing phases. Their implications are discussed.
  • Fulltext language: English
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.2063347
  • Journal:
    Physics of Fluids
    Publisher American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    ISSN 1070-6631 
  • Publication date: 2005
  • Volume: 17
  • Page, identifiant, ...: 103303
  • Keyword(s): Granular systems – Avalanches – Rheology – Numerial Simulations
  • Classification: 45.70.-n; 83.70.Fn;46.10.+z
  • Comment: 13 pages, 14 figures, 61 references, submitted to Phys. Fluids

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