Artículo
Granular flow through an aperture: Influence of the packing fraction
Fecha de publicación:
07/2014
Editorial:
American Physical Society
Revista:
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics
ISSN:
1539-3755
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
For the last 50 years, the flow of a granular material through an aperture has been intensely studied in gravity-driven vertical systems (e.g., silos and hoppers). Nevertheless, in many industrial applications, grains are horizontally transported at constant velocity, lying on conveyor belts or floating on the surface of flowing liquids. Unlike fluid flows, that are controlled by the pressure, granular flow is not sensitive to the local pressure but rather to the local velocity of the grains at the outlet. We can also expect the flow rate to depend on the local density of the grains. Indeed, vertical systems are packed in dense configurations by gravity, but, in contrast, in horizontal systems the density can take a large range of values, potentially very small, which may significantly alter the flow rate. In the present article, we study, for different initial packing fractions, the discharge through an orifice of monodisperse grains driven at constant velocity by a horizontal conveyor belt. We report how, during the discharge, the packing fraction is modified by the presence of the outlet, and we analyze how changes in the packing fraction induce variations in the flow rate. We observe that variations of packing fraction do not affect the velocity of the grains at the outlet, and, therefore, we establish that flow-rate variations are directly related to changes in the packing fraction.
Palabras clave:
Granular Flow
,
Silo Discharge
,
Beverloo Law
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Articulos(SEDE CENTRAL)
Articulos de SEDE CENTRAL
Articulos de SEDE CENTRAL
Citación
Aguirre, Maria Alejandra; De Schant, R.; Géminard, J. C.; Granular flow through an aperture: Influence of the packing fraction; American Physical Society; Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics; 90; 1; 7-2014; 1-6
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