Compressibility regularizes the 𝜇(I)-rheology for dense granular flows

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Abstract: The mu(I)-rheology has been recently proposed as a potential candidate to model the flow of frictional grains in a dense inertial regime. However, this rheology was shown to be ill-posed in the mathematical sense for a large range of parameters, notably in the slow and fast flow limits citep{Barker2015}. In this rapid communication, we extend the stability analysis to compressible flows. We show that compressibility regularizes mostly the equations, making them well-posed for all parameters, at the condition that sufficient dissipation is associated with volume changes. In addition to the usual Coulomb shear friction coefficient mu, we introduce a bulk friction coefficient mub, associated to volume changes and show that the equations are well-posed in two dimensions if mub>2−2mu (mub>3−7mu/2 in three dimensions). Moreover, we show that the ill-posed domain defined in citep{Barker2015} transforms into a domain where the equations are unstable but stay well-posed when compressibility is taken into account. These results suggest thus the importance of compressibility in dense granular flows.




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