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We study a two-dimensional granular system where external driving force is applied to each particle in the system in such a way that the system is driven into a steady state by balancing the energy input and the dissipation due to inelastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gongwen Peng , Takao Ohta

Boundary shape, particularly roughness, strongly controls the amount of wall slip in dense granular flows. In this paper, we aim to quantify and understand which aspects of a dense granular flow are controlled by the boundary condition, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-25 Farnaz Fazelpour , Karen E. Daniels

This work presents a unified viscoelastic-viscoplastic continuum framework for modeling rate-dependent granular flows across regimes. The formulation incorporates two distinct rate-dependent mechanisms, namely micro-inertia and viscoelastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-28 Bodhinanda Chandra , Sachith Dunatunga , Ken Kamrin

We introduce a system of shallow water-type equations to model laboratory experiments of particle-laden flows. We explore homogeneous liquid-solid suspensions of fine, non-cohesive, monodisperse glass beads which propagate as an equivalent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-11 Andrea Bondesan , Laurence Girolami , François James , Loïc Rousseau

We report and analyze the results of numerical studies of dense granular flows in two and three dimensions, using both linear damped springs and Hertzian force laws between particles. Chute flow generically produces a constant density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Deniz Ertas , Gary S. Grest , Thomas C. Halsey , Dov Levine , Leonardo E. Silbert

We consider dry granular flow down an inclined chute with a localised contraction theoretically and numerically. The flow regimes are predicted through a novel extended one-dimensional hydraulic theory. A discrete particle method validated…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-04-20 D. R. Tunuguntla , T. Weinhart , A. R. Thornton , O. Bokhove

The flow behavior of granular matter is significantly influenced by the shape of constituent particles. This effect is particularly pronounced for very concave particles, which exhibit unique flow characteristics such as higher porosity and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-13 Weiyi Wang , Jonathan Barés , Mathieu Renouf , Emilien Azéma

Understanding how granular materials respond to shear stress remains a central challenge in soft matter physics. We report direct observations of persistent granular convection in the bulk shear zones of spherical particle packings -- a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Mehran Erfanifam , Mahnoush Madani , Reza Shaebani , Maniya Maleki

The flow of granular material in a rotating cylinder was simulated by molecular dynamics in two dimensions using spherical as well as nonspherical grains. At very low but constant angular velocity we found that the flow varies irregularly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Thorsten Poeschel , Volkhard Buchholtz

We present in this Letter experimental results on the bidimensional flow field around a cylinder penetrating into dense granular matter together with drag force measurements. A hydrodynamic model based on extended kinetic theory for dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Antoine Seguin , Yann Bertho , Philippe Gondret , Jerome Crassous

The flow of dry granular material in a half-filled rotating drum is studied. The thickness of the flowing zone is measured for several rotation speeds, drum sizes and beads sizes (size ratio between drum and beads ranging from 47 to 7400).…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Gwenaëlle Félix , Véronique Falk , Umberto D'Ortona

We study numerically the stability of granular flow on a rough slope in collisional flow regime in the two-dimension. We examine the density dependence of the flowing behavior in low density region, and demonstrate that the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi

Flows of granular media down a rough inclined plane demonstrate a number of nonlocal phenomena. We apply the recently proposed nonlocal granular fluidity model to this geometry and find that the model captures many of these effects.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-25 Ken Kamrin , David Henann

The flow of a charged-stabilized suspension through a single constricted channel is studied experimentally by tracking the particles individually. Surprisingly, the behavior is found to be qualitatively similar to that of inertial dry…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 Alvaro Marin , Henri Lhuissier , Massimiliano Rossi , Christian J. Kaehler

Turbulent flows driven by a vertically invariant body force were proven to become exactly two-dimensional above a critical rotation rate, using upper bound theory. This transition in dimensionality of a turbulent flow has key consequences…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Basile Gallet

As granular materials flow and settle, interactions among particles of different sizes or properties drive mixing and segregation, producing rich dynamics that reshape systems ranging from industrial hoppers to planetary surfaces. A…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-28 Hugo N. Ulloa , Tomás Trewhela

Dense granular flows exhibit both surface deformation and secondary flows due to the presence of normal stress differences. Yet, a complete mathematical modelling of these two features is still lacking. This paper focuses on a steady…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-01 C. Gadal , C. G. Johnson , J. M. N. T. Gray

Rheological properties of dense flows of hard particles are singular as one approaches the jamming threshold where flow ceases, both for aerial granular flows dominated by inertia, and for over-damped suspensions. Concomitantly, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 E. DeGiuli , G. Düring , E. Lerner , M. Wyart

We study the rheological properties of a granular suspension subject to constant shear stress by constant volume molecular dynamics simulations. We derive the system `flow diagram' in the volume fraction/stress plane $(\phi,F)$: at low…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-28 Denis S. Grebenkov , Massimo Pica Ciamarra , Mario Nicodemi , Antonio Coniglio

The linear stability of rapid granular flow on a slope under gravity against the longitudinal perturbation is analyzed using hydrodynamic equations. It is demonstrated that the steady flow uniform along the flow direction becomes unstable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi