Long-surface-wave instability in dense granular flows

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DOI10.1017/S0022112003004555zbMATH Open1156.76458arXivcond-mat/0303017MaRDI QIDQ4465381FDOQ4465381


Authors: Yoël Forterre, Olivier Pouliquen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 9 June 2004

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we present an experimental study of the long surface wave instability that can develop when a granular material flows down a rough inclined plane. The threshold and the dispersion relation of the instability are precisely measured by imposing a controlled perturbation at the entrance of the flow and measuring its evolution along the slope. The results are compared with the prediction of a linear stability analysis conducted in the framework of the depth-averaged or Saint-Venant equations. We show that when the friction law proposed in Pouliquen (1999a) is introduced in the Saint-Venant equations, the theory is able to predict quantitatively the stability threshold and the phase velocity of the waves but fails in predicting the observed cutoff frequency. The instability is shown to be of the same nature as the long wave instability observed in classical fluids but with characteristics that can dramatically differ due to the specificity of the granular rheology.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303017




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