A frictional Cosserat model for the flow of granular materials through a vertical channel

DOI10.1007/BF01179543zbMATH Open0954.74015arXivcond-mat/9904167OpenAlexW1527324497MaRDI QIDQ1818655FDOQ1818655

Authors: Prabhu R. Nott, Kesava K. Rao, Srinivas Raghava Mohan 

Publication date: 15 February 2000

Published in: Acta Mechanica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A rigid-plastic Cosserat model has been used to study dense, fully developed flow of granular materials through a vertical channel. Frictional models based on the classical continuum do not predict the occurrence of shear layers, at variance with experimental observations. This feature has been attributed to the absence of a material length scale in their constitutive equations. The present model incorporates such a material length scale by treating the granular material as a Cosserat continuum. Thus localised couple stresses exist and the stress tensor is asymmetric. The velocity profiles predicted by the model are in close agreement with available experimental data. The predicted dependence of the shear layer thickness on the width of the channel is in reasonable agreement with data. In the limit of the ratio of the particle diameter to the half-width of the channel being small, the model predicts that the shear layer thickness scaled by the particle diameter grows.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9904167

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zbMATH Keywords

vertical channelCosserat continuumasymmetric stress tensormaterial length scaledense fully developed flow of granular materialslocalized couple stressesrigid-plastic Cosserat modelshear layer thickness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Granular flows (76T25) Generalities, axiomatics, foundations of continuum mechanics of solids (74A99) Granularity (74E20)

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