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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2017

Accretion Dynamics on Wet Granular Materials

Alban Sauret
Pierre Jop

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Wet granular aggregates are common precursors of construction materials, food, and health care products. The physical mechanisms involved in the mixing of dry grains with a wet substrate are not well understood and dicult to control. Here, we study experimentally the accretion of dry grains on a wet granular substrate by measuring the growth dynamics of the wet aggregate. We show that this aggregate is fully saturated and its cohesion is ensured by the capillary depression at the air-liquid interface. The growth dynamics is controlled by the liquid fraction at the surface of the aggregate and exhibits two regimes. In the viscous regime, the growth dynamics is limited by the capillary-driven flow of liquid through the granular packing to the surface of the aggregate. In the capture regime, the capture probability depends on the availability of the liquid at the saturated interface, which is controlled by the hydrostatic depression in the material. We propose a model that rationalizes our observations and captures both dynamics based on the evolution of the capture probability with the hydrostatic depression.
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hal-01526194 , version 1 (22-05-2017)

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Guillaume Saingier, Alban Sauret, Pierre Jop. Accretion Dynamics on Wet Granular Materials. Physical Review Letters, 2017, 118, pp.208001. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.208001⟩. ⟨hal-01526194⟩
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