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We study the rheology of dry and wet granular materials in the steady quasistatic regime using the Discrete Element Method (DEM) in a split-bottom ring shear cell with focus on the macroscopic friction. The aim of our study is to understand…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-13 Sudeshna Roy , Stefan Luding , Thomas Weinhart

In this paper, we consider the flow of an incompressible fluid in a deformable porous solid. We present a mathematical model using the framework offered by the theory of interacting continua. In its most general form, this framework…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-02-27 D. Z. Turner , K. B. Nakshatrala , M. J. Martinez

We consider fluid flow across a permeable interface within a deformable porous medium. We use mixture theory. The mixture's constituents are assumed to be incompressible in their pure form. We use Hamilton's principle to obtain the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Francesco Costanzo , Mohammad Jannesari , Beatrice Ghitti

To acquire the ability to numerically study the rheology of particulate two-phase flows that lack scale separation, we present a general method to average or coarse-grain the equations of motion of a mixture of a continuous fluid of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-22 Thomas Pähtz , Yulan Chen , Rui Zhu , Katharina Tholen , Zhiguo He

Mathematical modeling of fluid flow in a porous medium is usually described by a continuity equation and a chosen constitutive law. The latter, depending on the problem at hand, may be a nonlinear relation between the fluid's pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Alessio Fumagalli , Francesco Saverio Patacchini

In this paper, we propose a new formulation and a suitable finite element method for the steady coupling of viscous flow in deformable porous media using divergence-conforming filtration fluxes. The proposed method is based on the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Ruben Caraballo , Chansophea Wathanak In , Alberto F. Martín , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

After extensive quasi-static shearing, dense dry granular flows attain a steady-state condition of porosity and deviatoric stress, even as particles are continually rearranged. The paper considers two-dimensional flow and derives the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-27 Matthew R. Kuhn

Despite the ubiquity of fluid flows interacting with porous and elastic materials, we lack a validated non-empirical macroscale method for characterizing the flow over and through a poroelastic medium. We propose a computational tool to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-24 Uǧis Lācis , Giuseppe Antonio Zampogna , Shervin Bagheri

The paper considers a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model of a two-phase flow of incompressible viscous fluids. The model allows for a non-linear dependence of fluid density on the phase-field order parameter. Driven by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Yerbol Palzhanov , Alexander Zhiliakov , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii

A computer simulation model is used to study the density profile and flow of a miscible gaseous fluid mixture consisting of differing constituent masses ($m_A = m_B/3$) through an open matrix. The density profile is found to decay with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. B. Pandey , D. Stauffer , R. Seyfarth , Luis A. Cueva , J. F. Gettrust , Warren Wood

A micro-hydromechanical model for granular materials is presented. It combines the discrete element method (DEM) for the modeling of the solid phase and a pore-scale finite volume (PFV) formulation for the flow of an incompressible pore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-17 Emanuele Catalano , Bruno Chareyre , Eric Barthélémy

We numerically and theoretically study macroscopic properties of dense, sheared granular materials. In this process we first introduce an invariance in Newton's equations, explain how it leads to Bagnold's scaling, and discuss how it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Gregg Lois , Anaël Lemaître , Jean M. Carlson

We propose a model to study symmetric binary fluids, based in the mesoscopic molecular simulation technique known as multiparticle collision, where space and state variables are continuous while time is discrete. We include a repulsion rule…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-06-22 C. Echeverria , K. Tucci , O. Alvarez-Llamoza , E. E. Orozco-Guillén , M. Morales , M. G. Cosenza

Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations of granular media are computationally intensive, particularly during initialization phases dominated by large displacements and kinetic energy. This paper presents a novel generative pipeline based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Muhammad Moeeze Hassan , Régis Cottereau , Filippo Gatti , Patryk Dec

A basic problem in the science of realistic granular matter is the plethora of heuristic models of the stress field in the absence of a first-principles theory. Such a theory is formulated here, based on the idea that static granular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-25 Raphael Blumenfeld

Meshfree particle methods, such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and the Moving Particle Semi-Implicit (MPS) method, are widely used to simulate complex free-surface and multiphase flows. A key challenge in these methods is the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Nariman Mehranfar , Ahmad Shakibaeinia

We present a methodology for simulating three-dimensional flow of incompressible viscoplastic fluids modelled by generalised Newtonian rheological equations. It is implemented in a highly efficient framework for massively parallelisable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-17 Knut Sverdrup , Ann Almgren , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

The behaviour of dense assemblies of dry grains submitted to continuous shear deformation has been the subject of many experiments and discrete particle simulations. This paper is a collective work carried out among the French research…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 GdR Midi

The rheology of surface granular flows is investigated by means of measurements of velocity and number density profiles in a quasi-two-dimensional rotating cylinder, half-filled with mono-disperse steel balls. The measurements are made at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Ashish V. Orpe , D. V. Khakhar

In multiscale modelling, multiple models are used simultaneously to describe scale-dependent phenomena in a system of interest. Here we introduce a machine learning (ML)-based multiscale modelling framework for modelling hierarchical…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Mark Ashworth , Ahmed Elsheikh , Florian Doster