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Coupled air/granular flow in a linear Hele-Shaw cell
Ø Johnsen1, R Toussaint, K J Måløy
1Department of Physics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1048, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway.
Abstract:
We investigate experimentally the pattern formation process during injection of air in a noncohesive granular material confined in a linear Hele-Shaw cell. We characterize the features and dynamics of this pattern formation on the basis of fast image analysis and sensitive pressure measurements. Behaviors are classified using two parameters--injection pressure and plate opening--and four hydrodynamic regimes are defined. For some regions of the parameter space, flows of air and grains are shown to be strongly coupled and instable, and lead to channelization within the granular material with obvious large-scale permeability variations.
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