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We show that a freshly sedimented granular bed settles and creeps forward over extended periods of time under an applied hydrodynamic shear stress, which is below the critical value for bedload transport. The rearrangements are found to last over a time scale which is millions of times the sedimentation time scale of a grain in the fluid. Compaction occurs uniformly throughout the bed, but creep is observed to decay exponentially with depth, and decreases over time. The granular volume fraction in the bed is found to increase logarithmically, saturating at the random close packing value $phi_{rcp} approx 0.64$, while the surface roughness is observed to remain essentially unchanged. We demonstrate that an increasingly higher shear stress is required to erode the bed after a sub-critical shear is applied which results in an increase in its volume fraction. Thus, we find that bed armoring occurs due to a deep shear-induced relaxation of the bed towards the volume fraction associated with the glass transition.
Pebble-bed nuclear reactor technology, which is currently being revived around the world, raises fundamental questions about dense granular flow in silos. A typical reactor core is composed of graphite fuel pebbles, which drain very slowly in a conti
An experimental study of a granular surface submitted to a circular fluid motion is presented. The appearance of an instability along the sand-water interface is observed beyond a critical radius $r_c$. This creates ripples with a spiral shape on the
We perform three-dimensional simulations of a granular jet impact for both frictional and frictionless grains. Small shear stress observed in the experiment[X. Cheng et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188001 (2007) ] is reproduced through our simulation. H
We consider dense rapid shear flow of inelastically colliding hard disks. Navier-Stokes granular hydrodynamics is applied accounting for the recent finding cite{Luding,Khain} that shear viscosity diverges at a lower density than the rest of constitut
Using high-speed video and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) we study the motion of a large sphere in a vertically vibrated bed of smaller grains. As previously reported we find a non-monotonic density dependence of the rise and sink time of the large