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Dynamics of dense sheared granular flows. Part 1. Structure and diffusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

V. KUMARAN
V. KUMARAN*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

Shear flows of inelastic spheres in three dimensions in the volume fraction range 0.4–0.64 are analysed using event-driven simulations. Particle interactions are considered to be due to instantaneous binary collisions, and the collision model has a normal coefficient of restitution en (negative of the ratio of the post- and pre-collisional relative velocities of the particles along the line joining the centres) and a tangential coefficient of restitution et (negative of the ratio of post- and pre-collisional velocities perpendicular to the line joining the centres). Here, we have considered both et = +1 and et = en (rough particles) and et = −1 (smooth particles), and the normal coefficient of restitution en was varied in the range 0.6–0.98. Care was taken to avoid inelastic collapse and ensure there are no particle overlaps during the simulation. First, we studied the ordering in the system by examining the icosahedral order parameter Q6 in three dimensions and the planar order parameter q6 in the plane perpendicular to the gradient direction. It was found that for shear flows of sufficiently large size, the system continues to be in the random state, with Q6 and q6 close to 0, even for volume fractions between φ = 0.5 and φ = 0.6; in contrast, for a system of elastic particles in the absence of shear, the system orders (crystallizes) at φ = 0.49. This indicates that the shear flow prevents ordering in a system of sufficiently large size. In a shear flow of inelastic particles, the strain rate and the temperature are related through the energy balance equation, and all time scales can be non-dimensionalized by the inverse of the strain rate. Therefore, the dynamics of the system are determined only by the volume fraction and the coefficients of restitution. The variation of the collision frequency with volume fraction and coefficient of restitution was examined. It was found, by plotting the inverse of the collision frequency as a function of volume fraction, that the collision frequency at constant strain rate diverges at a volume fraction φad (volume fraction for arrested dynamics) which is lower than the random close-packing volume fraction 0.64 in the absence of shear. The volume fraction φad decreases as the coefficient of restitution is decreased from en = 1; φad has a minimum of about 0.585 for coefficient of restitution en in the range 0.6–0.8 for rough particles and is slightly larger for smooth particles. It is found that the dissipation rate and all components of the stress diverge proportional to the collision frequency in the close-packing limit. The qualitative behaviour of the increase in the stress and dissipation rate are well captured by results derived from kinetic theory, but the quantitative agreement is lacking even if the collision frequency obtained from simulations is used to calculate the pair correlation function used in the theory.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 632 , 10 August 2009 , pp. 109 - 144
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