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We present a continuum approach to model segregation of size-bidisperse granular materials in unsteady bounded heap flow as a prototype for modeling segregation in other time varying flows. In experiments, a periodically modulated feed rate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-02 Hongyi Xiao , Zhekai Deng , Julio M. Ottino , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Richard M. Lueptow

Grain segregation occurs under various conditions, such as vibration, shear and mixing. In the gravity-driven shear flow, size segregation is triggered by the percolation of small particles through the opened voids (kinetic sieving), and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-05-26 Lu Jing , C. Y. Kwok , Y. F. Leung

When a granular mixture involving grains of different sizes is shaken, sheared, mixed, or left to flow, grains tend to separate by sizes in a process known as size segregation. In this study, we explore the size segregation mechanism in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-30 L. Staron , J. C. Phillips

We present an experimental study of segregation of granular matter in a quasi-two dimensional silo emptying out of an orifice. Size separation is observed when multi-sized particles are used with the larger particles found in the center of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Azadeh Samadani , A. Pradhan , A. Kudrolli

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

Size segregation in granular flows is a well-known phenomenon: laboratory experiments consistently show that large particles migrate toward silo walls during filling, while smaller particles concentrate near the center. Paradoxically, field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-04 Shivakumar Athani , Benjy Marks , François Guillard , Alistair Gillespie , Itai Einav

We investigate the segregation of a dense binary mixture of granular particles that only differ in their restitution coefficient. The mixture is vertically vibrated in the presence of gravity. We find a partial segregation of the species,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Brito , H. Enríquez , S. Godoy , R. Soto

We characterize the local concentration dependence of segregation velocity and segregation flux in both size and density bidisperse gravity-driven free-surface granular flows as a function of the particle size ratio and density ratio,…

We study segregation of a binary mixture of similarly charged particles under shear using particle-based simulations. We simulate particle dynamics using a discrete-element model including electrostatic interactions and find that particles…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 R. Yoshimatsu , N. A. M. Araújo , T. Shinbrot , H. J. Herrmann

Scaling relationships have been proposed to describe shear-driven size segregation based on intruder experiments and simulations. While these models have shown agreement with experimental and numerical results under uniform shear rate,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-03 Tianxiong Zhao , Daisuke Noto , Xia Li , Tomás Trewhela , Hugo N. Ulloa

We study time-dependent density segregation of granular mixtures flowing over an inclined plane. Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations in a periodic box are performed for granular mixtures of same size and different density particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-16 Soniya Kumawat , Vishnu Kumar Sahu , Anurag Tripathi

The transport of sediments by a fluid flow is commonly found in nature and in industry. In nature, it is found in rivers, oceans, deserts, and other environments. In industry, it is found in petroleum pipelines conveying grains, in sewer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-17 Marcos Roberto Mendes Penteado , Erick de Moraes Franklin

We performed molecular dynamics simulations of granular beds driven by a model hydrodynamic shear flow to elucidate general grain-scale mechanisms that determine the onset and cessation of sediment transport. By varying the Shields number…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-19 Abram H. Clark , Mark D. Shattuck , Nicholas T. Ouellette , Corey S. O'Hern

Density-driven segregations, extensively studied in a simple rotating drum, are enriched with a wide range of underlying physics. Diverse symmetrical segregation patterns formed by mixing two types of dry mono-sized grains have been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-21 Yu Chen , Deheng Wei , Si Suo , Mingrui Dong , Yixiang Gan

Particle segregation in dense flowing size-disperse granular mixtures is driven by gravity and shear, but predicting the associated segregation force due to both effects has remained an unresolved challenge. Here, a model of the combined…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-20 Yifei Duan , Lu Jing , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

The transport of solid particles entrained by a fluid flow is frequently found in industrial applications. A better knowledge of it, is of importance to improve particle related industrial processes. When shear stresses exerted by the fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-30 Erick de Moraes Franklin , François Charru

We present a method to estimate the segregation parameter, $S,$ a key input in a continuum transport model of particulate flows. $S$ is determined by minimizing the difference between measured and model-predicted concentration profiles. To…

We study the segregation of granular mixtures in two-dimensional silos using a set of coupled equations for surface flows of grains. We study the thick flow regime, where the grains are segregated in the rolling phase. We incorporate this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hernan A. Makse

We experimentally study the detachment of drops of granular suspensions using a density matched model suspension with varying volume fraction ({\phi} = 15% to 55%) and grain diameter (d = 20 {\mu}m to 140 {\mu}m). We show that at the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-12 Claire Bonnoit , Thibault Bertrand , Éric Clément , Anke Lindner

In a half-filled rotating drum, the size segregation of particles of equal density builds a ring pattern of the large particles, whose location continuously varies from the periphery to the center depending on the size ratio between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Felix , N. Thomas