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Equilibrium sedimentation density profiles of charged binary colloidal suspensions are calculated by computer simulations and density functional theory. For deionized samples, we predict a colloidal ``brazil nut'' effect: heavy colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ansgar Esztermann , Hartmut Löwen

The size-segregation of granular materials, a process colloquially known as the Brazil Nut Effect, has generally been thought to proceed faster the greater the size difference of the particles. We experimentally investigate sheared…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Laura A. Golick , Karen E. Daniels

We present molecular dynamics simulations on the segregation of binary mixtures in a high-velocity rotating drum. Depending on the ratio of particle's radius and density, the ring-like spin segregation patterns in radial direction show…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-15 Decai Huang , Ming Lu , Gang Sun , Yaodong Feng , Min Sun , Haiping Wu , Kaiming Deng

The system of driven dense colloid mixtures is studied in one-, two- and three-dimensional geometries. We calculate the diffusion coefficients and mobilities for each particle type, including cross-terms, in a hydrodynamic limit, using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-14 Frantisek Slanina , Miroslav Kotrla

Canul-Chay et al. [1] have conducted the segregation experiment of binary granular mixtures in a bed and subjected the bed to vibration. They report that the reverse Brazil-Nut phenomenon (RBNP) was never observed in their experiments and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel C. Hong , Paul V. Quinn , Stefan Luding

In order to study analytically the nature of the size segregation in granular mixtures, we introduce a mean field theory in the framework of a statistical mechanics approach, based on Edwards' original ideas. For simplicity we apply the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Tarzia , A. Fierro , M. Nicodemi , M. Pica Ciamarra , A. Coniglio

The Brazil-nut effect is the phenomenon in which a large intruder particle immersed in a vertically shaken bed of smaller particles rises to the top, even when it is much denser. The usual practice, while describing these experiments, has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-26 Prakhyat Hejmady , Ranjini Bandyopadhyay , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Abhishek Dhar

Grains configuration snapshots of Brazil-nut effect (BNE) in two-dimension are physically modeled using disk-formed objects, e.g., buttons and magnetic pin. These BNE configurations are artificially designed to mimic the real ones observed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-30 Sparisoma Viridi , Siti Nurul Khotimah , Novitrian , Widayani , Luman Haris , Dimas Praja Purwa Aji

We compare the predictions of two different statistical mechanics approaches, corresponding to different physical measurements, proposed to describe binary granular mixtures subjected to some external driving (continuous shaking or tap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Tarzia , Annalisa Fierro , Mario Nicodemi , Antonio Coniglio

Rising motion of an obstacle in a vibrated granular medium is a classic problem of granular segregation, and called the Brazil nut (BN) effect. The controlling vibration parameters of the effect has been a long-standing problem. A simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-06 Hui Zee Then , Teruyo Sekiguchi , Ko Okumura

A discrete Boltzmann model (DBM) is developed to investigate the hydrodynamic and thermodynamic non-equilibrium (TNE) effects in phase separation processes. The interparticle force drives changes and the gradient force, induced by gradients…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-27 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Sauro Succi

In some countries, cars and motorbikes are allowed to pass through the same road. We observe a phenomenon similar to a Brazil nut effect (BNE) that frequently occurs on such roads, in which motorbikes (representations of small particles)…

A collisional model of a confined quasi-two-dimensional granular mixture is considered to analyze homogeneous steady states. The model includes an effective mechanism to transfer the kinetic energy injected by vibration in the vertical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-30 Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto , Vicente Garzó

The Boltzmann kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two dimensional granular mixture derived previously [Garz\'o, Brito and Soto, Phys. Fluids \textbf{33}, 023310 (2021)] is considered further to analyze two different problems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-07 Vicente Garzó , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

It is well-recognized that granular media under rapid flow conditions can be modeled as a gas of hard spheres with inelastic collisions. At moderate densities, a fundamental basis for the determination of the granular hydrodynamics is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Moisés García Chamorro , Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

Brownian motion in a granular gas in a homogeneous cooling state is studied theoretically and by means of molecular dynamics. We use the simplest first-principle model for the impact-velocity dependent restitution coefficient, as it follows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anna Bodrova , Awadhesh Kumar Dubey , Sanjay Puri , Nikolai Brilliantov

The Boltzmann collision operator for a dilute granular gas of inelastic rough hard spheres is much more intricate than its counterpart for inelastic smooth spheres. Now the one-body distribution function depends not only on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-10 Andrés Santos

In a recent paper [A. Santos, G. M. Kremer, and V. Garz\'o, \emph{Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl.} \textbf{184}, 31-48 (2010)] the collisional energy production rates associated with the translational and rotational granular temperatures in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-10 Andrés Santos

We study, in the framework of the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation (BNE), the kinetic properties of a boson gas above the Bose-Einstein transition temperature $T_c$. The BNE is solved numerically within a new algorithm, that has been tested with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Lopez-Arias , A. Smerzi

We present laboratory experiments of a vertically vibrated granular medium consisting of 1 mm diameter glass beads with embedded 8 mm diameter intruder glass beads. The experiments were performed in the laboratory as well as in a parabolic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 Carsten Güttler , Ingo von Borstel , Rainer Schräpler , Jürgen Blum