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The rheology of dense granular flows is often seen as dependent on the nature of the energy landscape defining the modes of energy relaxation under shear. We investigate numerically the transition from soft to rigid particles, varying $S$,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-18 A. Favier de Coulomb , M. Bouzid , P. Claudin , E. Clement , B. Andreotti

The rheology of dense granular shear flows is influenced by friction and particle shape. We investigate numerically the impact of non-spherical particle geometries under shear on packing fraction, stress ratios, velocity fluctuations, force…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-04 Jacopo Bilotto , Martin Trulsson , Jean-François Molinari

We study the rheology and distribution of interparticle contact lifetimes for gravity-driven, dense granular flows of non-cohesive particles down an inclined plane using large-scale, three dimensional, granular dynamics simulations. Rather…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Leonardo E. Silbert , Gary S. Grest , Robert Brewster , Alex J. Levine

This paper is devoted to the basic question of what factors determine the strain field in a quasi static granular flow. It is shown that using stress - strain rate relations is not the proper way to understand quasi static rheology. An…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-21 Tamás Unger

A unifying framework to describe dense flows of dry, deformable grains is proposed. Perturbative analysis of a granular temperature equation describing flows with contact stresses, supported by the recovery of the nonlocal granular fluidity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Benjamin M. Alessio , Matthew R. Edwards , Ching-Yao Lai

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 marginal ice zone (MIZ) represents the periphery of the sea ice cover. In this region, the macroscale behavior of the sea ice results from collisions and enduring contact between ice floes. This configuration closely resembles that of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-25 Gonzalo G. de Diego , Mukund Gupta , Skylar A. Gering , Rohaiz Haris , Georg Stadler

Classical scaling relationships for rheological quantities such as the $\mu(J)$-rheology have become increasingly popular for closures of two-phase flow modeling. However, these frameworks have been derived for monodisperse particles. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-22 Christoph Rettinger , Sebastian Eibl , Ulrich Rüde , Bernhard Vowinckel

We perform Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations of granular particles (polystyrene spheres) vibrated inside a cubic container. The study investigates the evolution of the packing fraction with and without rotational friction at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-03 Linnea Heitmeier , Jan Gabriel

The accuracy of coarse-grained continuum models of dense granular flows is limited by the lack of high-fidelity closure models for granular rheology. One approach to addressing this issue, referred to as the hierarchical multiscale method,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-30 B. Siddani , Weiqun Zhang , Andrew Nonaka , John Bell , Ishan Srivastava

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 article explores the hysteretic behavior and the damping features of sheared granular media using discrete element method (DEM) simulations. We consider polydisperse non-cohesive frictional spherical particles, enclosed in a container…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 A. Faulconnier , S. Job , J. Brocail , N. Peyret , J. -L. Dion

The rheology of pressure-driven flows of two-dimensional dense monodisperse emulsions in neutral wetting microchannels is investigated by means of mesoscopic lattice simulations, capable of handling large collections of droplets, in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-03 Linlin Fei , Andrea Scagliarini , Kai H. Luo , Sauro Succi

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 use particle-based simulation to study the rheology of dense suspensions comprising mixtures of small colloids and larger grains, which exhibit shear thinning at low shear rates and shear thickening at high shear rates. By systematically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-14 Xuan Li , John R. Royer , Christopher Ness

We present a theoretical derivation of a rheology for dense granular flow, based on the process of inelastic collapse of neighboring particles. This collapse creates regions of correlated motion, which control the viscous behavior of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas C. Halsey , Deniz Ertas

To understand the process of pattern formation in a low-density granular flow, we propose a simple particle model. This model considers spherical particles moving over an inclined flat surface based on three forces: gravity as the driving…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-24 Hirofumi Niiya , Akinori Awazu , Hiraku Nishimori

Flowing granular materials segregate due to differences in particle size (driven by percolation) and density (driven by buoyancy). Modelling the segregation of mixtures of large/heavy particles and small/light particles is challenging due…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-18 Yifei Duan , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

The kinematic flow pattern in slow deformation of a model dense granular medium is studied at high resolution using \emph{in situ} imaging, coupled with particle tracking. The deformation configuration is indentation by a flat punch under…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-22 Koushik Viswanathan , Anirban Mahato , Tejas G. Murthy , Tomasz Koziara , Srinivasan Chandrasekar

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