Thursday, December 20, 2012

1212.4578 (Martin Trulsson et al.)

Dynamical compressibility of dense granular shear flows    [PDF]

Martin Trulsson, Mehdi Bouzid, Philippe Claudin, Bruno Andreotti
It has been conjectured by Bagnold [1] that an assembly of hard non-deformable spheres could behave as a compressible medium when slowly sheared, as the average density of such a system effectively depends on the confining pressure. Here we use discrete element simulations to show the existence of transverse and sagittal waves associated to this dynamical compressibility. For this purpose, we study the resonance of these waves in a linear Couette cell and compare the results with those predicted from a continuum local constitutive relation.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4578

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