Experiments and simulations of a gravitational granular flow instability
Résumé
An instability is observed as a layer of dense granular material positioned above a layer of air falls in a gravitational field Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 048001 2007. A characteristic pattern of fingers emerges along the interface defined by the grains, and a transient coarsening of the structure is caused by a coalescence of neighboring fingers. The coarsening is limited by the production of new fingers as the separation of the existing fingers reaches a certain distance. The experiments and simulations presented are shown to be comparable both qualitatively and quantitatively. The characteristic inverse length scale of the structures, obtained as the mean of the solid fraction power spectrum, relaxes toward a stable value shared by the numerical and experimental data. Further, the response of the numerical model to changes in various model parameters is investigated. These parameters include the density of the grains, the shape of the initial air-grain interface, and the dissipa-tion of the granular phase. Also, the growth rates of the bulk solid fraction and the air-grain interface are obtained from Fourier power spectra of the numerical data. This analysis reveals that the instability is never in a linear regime, not even initially.
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Physique [physics] Matière Condensée [cond-mat] Planète et Univers [physics] Sciences de la Terre Géophysique [physics.geo-ph] Hydrologie Géomorphologie Science non linéaire [physics] Matière Molle [cond-mat.soft] Mécanique [physics] Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph] Mécanique des solides [physics.class-ph]
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