| Issue |
EPL
Volume 88, Number 4, November 2009
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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/10.1209/0295-5075/88/44002 | |
| Published online | 03 December 2009 | |
Sphere penetration by impact in a granular medium: A collisional process
1
Univ Paris-Sud, Univ Paris 6, CNRS, Lab FAST - Bât. 502, Campus Univ, F-91405 Orsay, France, EU
2
Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR UR1-CNRS 6251, Université Rennes 1 - Campus Beaulieu, Bât. 11A, F-35042 Rennes, France, EU
Corresponding author: jerome.crassous@univ-rennes1.fr
Received:
20
July
2009
Accepted:
6
November
2009
The penetration by a gravity-driven impact of a solid sphere into a granular medium is studied by two-dimensional simulations. The scaling laws observed experimentally for both the final penetration depth and the stopping time with the relevant physical parameters are here recovered numerically without the consideration of any microscopic solid friction but with dissipative collisions only. Dissipative collisional processes are thus found as essential in catching the penetration dynamics in granular matter whereas microscopic frictional processes can only be considered as secondary effects.
PACS: 45.70.-n – Granular systems / 45.50.-j – Dynamics and kinematics of a particle and system of particles / 96.15.Qr – Impact phenomena
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