| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 44, Number 3, November I 1998
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| Page(s) | 386 - 392 | |
| Section | Cross-disciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1998-00483-y | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Filling a silo with a mixture of grains: Friction-induced segregation
1
Department of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Budapest, Budafoki u. 8, 1111 Hungary
2
Theoretische Physik, FB 10, Gerhard-Mercator Universität - 47048 Duisburg, Germany
3
Center for Polymer Studies and Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
4
Minerva Center and Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University - Ramat Gan, Israel
5
Schlumberger-Doll Research, Old Quarry Road - Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA
Received:
17
June
1998
Accepted:
10
September
1998
We study the filling process of a two-dimensional silo with inelastic particles by simulation of a granular-media lattice gas (GMLG) model. We calculate the surface shape and flow profiles for a monodisperse system and we introduce a novel generalization of the GMLG model for a binary mixture of particles of different friction properties where, for the first time, we measure the segregation process on the surface. The results are in good agreement with a recent theory, and we explain the observed small deviations by the nonuniform velocity profile.
PACS: 83.70.Fn – Granular solids / 64.75.+g – Solubility, segregation, and mixing; phase separation / 46.10.+z – Mechanics of discrete systems
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