Drag induced lift in granular media
Soft Condensed Matter
2011-08-10 v2
Abstract
Laboratory experiments and numerical simulation reveal that a submerged intruder dragged horizontally at constant velocity within a granular medium experiences a lift force whose sign and magnitude depend on the intruder shape. Comparing the stress on a flat plate at varied inclination angle with the local surface stress on the intruders at regions with the same orientation demonstrates that intruder lift forces are well approximated as the sum of contributions from flat-plate elements. The plate stress is deduced from the force balance on the flowing media near the plate.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.3861,
title = {Drag induced lift in granular media},
author = {Yang Ding and Nick Gravish and Daniel I. Goldman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3861},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures