Flowers in flour: avalanches in cohesive granular matter
E Freyssingeas1, M-J Dalbe, J-C Géminard
1Université de Lyon, Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Lyon, France.
Abstract:
We report on the intermittent dynamics of the free surface of a cohesive granular material during a silo discharge. In absence of cohesion, one observes the formation and the growth of a conical crater whose angle is well defined and constant in time. When the cohesion is involved the free surface exhibits a complex dynamics and the crater, resulting from a series of individual avalanches, is no longer axisymmetric. However, in spite of the intermittent behavior of the free surface, the flow rate is observed to remain constant throughout the discharge.
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