Issue |
EPL
Volume 92, Number 5, December 2010
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Article Number | 54004 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/92/54004 | |
Published online | 05 January 2011 |
Repeated segregation and energy dissipation in an axially segregated granular bed
1
Food and Bioprocess Engineering Group, Wageningen University - P.O. Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands, EU
2
Computational Biophysics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente - P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, EU
Received:
18
August
2010
Accepted:
25
November
2010
Discrete element simulations were used to study the segregation behaviour in a bed of bidisperse granules in a rotating drum. In the final state the large particles ended up in the upper part of the bed near the vertical walls. In order to arrive at this state, the system went through two cycles of structural changes, on top of which fast oscillations were observed between an axially segregated and a somewhat more mixed state. These oscillations were sustained by different angles of repose near the vertical walls and in the middle of the bed. Concomitantly with the structural changes, the system's energy dissipation went through two cycles after which it settled in the state requiring the least work of all traversed states, suggesting that the granular bed strives for minimal dissipation.
PACS: 45.70.Mg – Granular flow: mixing, segregation and stratification / 02.70.Ns – Molecular dynamics and particle methods
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