First normal stress difference and crystallization in a dense sheared granular fluid

DOI10.1063/1.1587723MaRDI QIDQ3553986zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Meheboob Alam, S. Luding

Publication date 22 April 2010

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306689

zbMATH Keywords

crystallisationflow simulationgranular flowgranular materialsliquid structurephase equilibriumstress effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: The first normal stress difference (${mathcalN}_1$) and the microstructure in a dense sheared granular fluid of smooth inelastic hard-disks are probed using event-driven simulations. While the anisotropy in the second moment of fluctuation velocity, which is a Burnett-order effect, is known to be the progenitor of normal stress differences in {it dilute} granular fluids, we show here that the collisional anisotropies are responsible for the normal stress behaviour in the {it dense} limit. As in the elastic hard-sphere fluids, ${mathcalN}_1$ remains {it positive} (if the stress is defined in the {it compressive} sense) for dilute and moderately dense flows, but becomes {it negative} above a critical density, depending on the restitution coefficient. This sign-reversal of ${mathcalN}_1$ occurs due to the {it microstructural} reorganization of the particles, which can be correlated with a preferred value of the {it average} collision angle $het{a}_{av}=pi/4pmpi/2$ in the direction opposing the shear. We also report on the shear-induced {it crystal}-formation, signalling the onset of fluid-solid coexistence in dense granular fluids. Different approaches to take into account the normal stress differences are discussed in the framework of the relaxation-type rheological models.

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