| Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 4, November 2008
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| Article Number | 44002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/44002 | |
| Published online | 12 November 2008 | |
Jamming and critical outlet size in the discharge of a two-dimensional silo
1
Departamento de Física y Matemática Aplicada, Universidad de Navarra - 31080 Pamplona, Spain, EU
2
Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos (CONICET-UNLP-CIC) - Casilla de correo 565, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Corresponding author: ajandaga@alumni.unav.es
Received:
20
June
2008
Accepted:
13
October
2008
We present an experimental study of jamming in the discharge of grains through an opening in a two-dimensional silo. For a wide range of outlet sizes, we obtain the size distribution of avalanche defined as the number of grains that fall between two consecutive jams. From these distributions, we obtain the probability that the silo jams before N particles pass through the orifice. Then a simple model of arch formation is proposed that predicts the shape of the jamming probability function and reveals that it does not exist a critical size of the orifice above which there is not jamming.
PACS: 47.57.Gc – Granular flow / 45.70.Vn – Granular models of complex systems; traffic flow
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