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Both discrete and continuum models have been widely used to study rapid granular flow, discrete model is accurate but computationally expensive, whereas continuum model is computationally efficient but its accuracy is doubtful in many…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-24 Xizhong Chen , Junwu Wang , Jinghai Li

In this work, we develop a modelling framework for granular flows based on the shallow water moment equations on inclined planes. Under the assumption of a polynomial expansion of the velocity field, the model extends the classical shallow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Julio Careaga , Qian Huang , Julian Koellermeier

Binary fluid mixtures are examples of complex fluids whose microstructure and flow are strongly coupled. For pairs of simple fluids, the microstructure consists of droplets or bicontinuous demixed domains and the physics is controlled by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-05 Michael E. Cates , Elsen Tjhung

This paper deals with the complex problem of how to simulate multiparticle contacts. The collision process is responsible for the transfer and dissipation of energy in granular media. A novel model of the interaction force between particles…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leszczynski Jacek

In swelling porous media, the potential for flow is much more than pressure, and derivations for flow equations have yielded a variety of equations. In this paper we show that the macroscopic flow potentials are the electro-chemical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 Lynn Schreyer-Bennethum

A granular gas subjected to a permanent injection of energy is described by means of hydrodynamic equations derived from a moment expansion method. The method uses as reference function not a Maxwellian distribution $f_{\sf M}$ but a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosa Ramirez , Dino Risso , Rodrigo Soto , Patricio Cordero

A numerical hydrodynamic model of a vibrated granular bed in 2D is elaborated based on a highly accurate Shock Capturing scheme applied to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for granular flow. The hydrodynamic simulation of granular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose Antonio Carrillo , Thorsten Poeschel , Clara Saluena

There is a simple and general experimental protocol to generate slow granular flows that exhibit wide shear zones, qualitatively different from the narrow shear bands that are usually observed in granular materials . The essence is to drive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-22 Joshua A. Dijksman , Martin van Hecke

The generation of microbubbles upon the collision and interaction of liquid bodies in a gaseous environment is a ubiquitous process in two-phase flows, including large-scale phenomena like ship wakes, breaking waves and rain showers. These…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-30 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Javier Urzay , Parviz Moin

Predicting particle segregation has remained challenging due to the lack of a general model for the segregation velocity that is applicable across a range of granular flow geometries. Here, a segregation velocity model for dense granular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Yifei Duan , Lu Jing , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

In this paper, we investigate fractional energy methods for Micropolar fluids, starting with an initial angular velocity of negative Sobolev regularity. For the initial angular velocity assumption, we consider a non-homogeneous Sobolev norm…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Pedro Gabriel Fernández Dalgo

This paper describes the results of our theoretical and numerical studies of hydrodynamic interactions in a suspension of spherical particles confined between two parallel planar walls, under creeping-flow conditions. We propose a novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

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

A numerical procedure was developed for solving equations for compressible granular multiphase flows in which the particle volume fraction can range dynamically from very dilute to very dense. The procedure uses a low-dissipation and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 Ryan W. Houim , Elaine S. Oran

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

When the time-reversal and parity symmetries in a fluid are broken, transverse transport coefficients can arise in response to perturbations, an example being odd viscosity. We refer to these systems as odd fluids. While much progress has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-19 Ege Eren , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

The asymptotic analysis of kinetic models describing the behavior of particles interacting through alignment is performed. We will analyze the asymptotic regime corresponding to large alignment frequency where the alignment effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 M. Bostan , J. A. Carrillo

We investigate numerically the transition between static equilibrium and dynamic surface flow of a 2D cohesionless granular system driven by a continuous gravity loading. This transition is characterized by intermittent local dynamic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Lydie Staron , Jean-Pierre Vilotte , Farhang Radjai

Detailed studies of the intriguing field-dependent dynamics and transport properties of confined flowing ferrofluids require efficient mesoscopic simulation methods that account for fluctuating ferrohydrodynamics. Here, we propose such a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 Patrick Ilg

We present a mesoscopic model of the fluid-wall interactions for flows in microchannel geometries. We define a suitable implementation of the boundary conditions for a discrete version of the Boltzmann equations describing a wall-bounded…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , M. Sbragaglia , S. Succi , F. Toschi