Flux through a hole from a shaken granular medium
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We have measured the flux of grains from a hole in the bottom of a shaken container of grains. We find that the peak velocity of the vibration, vmax, controls the flux, i.e., the flux is nearly independent of the frequency and acceleration amplitude for a given value of vmax. The flux decreases with increasing peak velocity and then becomes almost constant for the largest values of vmax. The data at low peak velocity can be quantitatively described by a simple model, but the crossover to nearly constant flux at larger peak velocity suggests a regime in which the granular density near the container bottom is independent of the energy input to the system.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0608125,
title = {Flux through a hole from a shaken granular medium},
author = {K. Chen and M. B. Stone and R. Barry and M. Lohr and W. McConville and K. Klein and B. L. Sheu and A. J. Morss and T. Scheidemantel and P. Schiffer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0608125},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 4 figures. to appear in Physical Review E