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Zhang X, Adapa S, Feng T, Zeng J, Chung KM, Ho C, Albrecht K, Chen R. Micromechanical origin of heat transfer to granular flow. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:L042902. [PMID: 38755816 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.l042902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Heat transfer across a granular flow is comprised of two resistances in series : near the wall and within the bulk particle bed, neither of which is well understood due to the lack of experimental probes to separate their respective contribution. Here, we use a frequency modulated photothermal technique to separately quantify the thermal resistances in the near-wall and the bulk bed regions of particles in flowing states. Compared to the stationary state, the flowing leads to a higher near-wall resistance and a lower thermal conductivity of bulk beds. Coupled with discrete element method simulation, we show that the near-wall resistance can be explained by particle diffusion in granular flows.
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- Xintong Zhang
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Program in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Concentrating Solar Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratories, 1515 Eubank Boulevard SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123, USA
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- Concentrating Solar Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratories, 1515 Eubank Boulevard SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
- Program in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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Amereh M, Nadler B. Orientational-induced strain hardening of axisymmetric grains. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:L042901. [PMID: 36397499 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.l042901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The rheological response of oriented axisymmetric grains has additional degrees of complexity associated with their microstructure orientation. These additional kinematic degrees of freedom that give rise to complex transient macroscale rheological responses are not well understood. In this Letter, we study the rheology of axisymmetric grains subjected to transient flow. We identify strong coupling between the microstructure rearrangement and strain hardening which, under certain conditions, can yield jamming. We identify the critical conditions corresponding to jamming and the dependency on the shape of the grains. It is shown that this is a particular form of jamming that is directional in nature, since unjamming occurs if the shear direction is reversed.
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- M Amereh
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P6, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P6, Canada
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Buscarnera G, Einav I. The mechanics of brittle granular materials with coevolving grain size and shape. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 2022; 477:20201005. [PMID: 35153559 PMCID: PMC8300606 DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2020.1005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The influence of particle shape on the mechanics of sand is widely recognized,
especially in mineral processing and geomechanics. However, most existing
continuum theories for engineering applications do not encompass the morphology
of the grains and its evolution during comminution. Similarly, the relatively
few engineering models accounting for grain-scale processes tend to idealize
particles as spheres, with their diameters considered as the primary and sole
geometric descriptor. This paper inspires a new generation of constitutive laws
for crushable granular continua with arbitrary, yet evolving, particle
morphology. We explore the idea of introducing multiple grain shape descriptors
into Continuum Breakage Mechanics (CBM), a theory originally designed to track
changes in particle size distributions during confined comminution. We
incorporate the influence of these descriptors on the elastic strain energy
potential and treat them as dissipative state variables. In analogy with the
original CBM, and in light of evidence from extreme fragmentation in nature, the
evolution of the additional shape descriptors is postulated to converge towards
an attractor. Comparisons with laboratory experiments, discrete element analyses
and particle-scale fracture models illustrate the encouraging performance of the
theory. The theory provides insights into the feedback among particle shape,
compressive yielding and inelastic deformation in crushable granular continua.
These results inspire new questions that should guide future research into
crushable granular systems using particle-scale imaging and computations.
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- Giuseppe Buscarnera
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia
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Berzi D, Buettner KE, Curtis JS. Dense shearing flows of soft, frictional cylinders. SOFT MATTER 2021; 18:80-88. [PMID: 34849518 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01395e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We perform discrete numerical simulations at a constant volume of dense, steady, homogeneous flows of true cylinders interacting via Hertzian contacts, with and without friction, in the absence of preferential alignment. We determine the critical values of the solid volume fraction and the average number of contacts per particle above which rate-independent components of the stresses develop, along with a sharp increase in the fluctuations of angular velocity. We show that kinetic theory, extended to account for a velocity correlation at solid volume fractions larger than 0.49, can quantitatively predict the measured fluctuations of translational velocity, at least for sufficiently rigid cylinders, for any value of the cylinder aspect ratio and friction investigated here. The measured pressure above and below the critical solid volume fraction is in agreement with a recent theory originally intended for spheres that conjugates extended kinetic theory, the finite duration of collisions between soft particles and the development of an elastic network of long-lasting contacts responsible for the rate-independency of the flows in the supercritical regime. Finally, we find that, for sufficiently rigid cylinders, the ratio of shear stress to pressure in the subcritical regime is a linear function of the ratio of the shear rate to a suitable measure of the fluctuations of translational velocity, in qualitative accordance with kinetic theory, with an intercept that increases with friction. A decrease in the particle stiffness gives rise to nonlinear effects that greatly diminishes the stress ratio.
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- University of Florida, 32611 Gainesville, FL, USA
- ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, 77389 Spring, TX, USA
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Trulsson M. Directional shear jamming of frictionless ellipses. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:044614. [PMID: 34781452 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.044614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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In this work we study shear reversals of dense non-Brownian suspensions composed of cohesionless elliptical particles. By numerical simulations, we show that a new fragility appears for frictionless ellipses in the flowing states, where particles can flow indefinitely in one direction at applied shear stresses but shear jam in the other direction upon shear stress reversal. This new fragility, absent in the isotropic particle case, is linked to the directional order of the elongated particles at steady shear and its reorientation at shear stress reversal, which forces the suspensions to pass through a more disordered state with an increased number of contacts in which it might get arrested.
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- Martin Trulsson
- Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, Lund SE-221 00, Sweden
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A study of ellipsoidal and spherical particle flow, clogging and unclogging dynamics. POWDER TECHNOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2021.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zhu L, Wang N, Lu H, Liu H. Effects of elongated particles rotation on discharge flow of mixed granular systems. Chem Eng Res Des 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2019.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mahajan VV, Mehmood J, El Hasadi YM, Padding JT. Fluid medium effect on stresses in suspensions of high-inertia rod-like particles. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE: X 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cesx.2019.100030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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X-ray rheography uncovers planar granular flows despite non-planar walls. Nat Commun 2018; 9:5119. [PMID: 30504799 PMCID: PMC6269474 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07628-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Extremely useful techniques exist to observe the interior of deforming opaque materials, but these methods either require that the sample is replaced with a model material or that the motion is stopped intermittently. For example, X-ray computed tomography cannot measure the continuous flow of materials due to the significant scanning time required for density reconstruction. Here we resolve this technological gap with an alternative X-ray method that does not require such tomographs. Instead our approach uses correlation analysis of successive high-speed radiographs from just three directions to directly reconstruct three-dimensional velocities. When demonstrated on a steady granular system, we discover a compressible flow field that has planar streamlines despite curved confining boundaries, in surprising contrast to Newtonian fluids. More generally, our new X-ray technique can be applied using synchronous source/detector pairs to investigate transient phenomena in various soft matter such as biological tissues, geomaterials and foams. Tracking the deformation of opaque materials under their surfaces is fascinating, yet a challenging task, which has been constrained to static conditions or model materials to date. Here, Baker et al. develop X-ray rheography to reconstruct three-dimensional velocity fields in general granular media.
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