Effects of long and short relaxation times of particle interactions in dense and slow granular flows
- Duan Z.
In this work, dense granular flows are numerically simulated using a discrete element method. The interaction of a pair of colliding particles is modeled as a parallel connection of a linear spring and a linear dashpot. Although the force model for particle interactions is simplistic for many practical problems, a significant amount of meaningful new physics can be extracted from the numerical simulations by studying the behavior of particle interaction time and its probability distribution. For instance, it is found that the probability distribution of particle contact ages is exponential for long-term contacts. The time scale of the exponential decay of the contact age probability is related to the rheological properties of the dense granular medium.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 976467
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-02-7410; TRN: US1006458
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Submitted to: 4th ASME/JSME joint fluids engineering conference, July 6-10, 2003, Waikki, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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