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  • Materials Science
  • Computational Science

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  • Dense granular materials exhibit complex behaviors under deformation.
  • Understanding particle rearrangement and energy dissipation is crucial for granular flow analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate vortex structures and their distributions in dense granular materials under shear.
  • To analyze the statistical properties and scaling laws of vorticity fields.

Main Methods:

  • Two-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations of dense granular materials.
  • Analysis of vorticity fields to quantify local particle spinning motions.
  • Dimensional analysis to explain observed power-law decays and scaling relationships.

Main Results:

  • Observed heterogeneous distributions of vorticity fields with non-Gaussian statistics.
  • Identified significant increases in vorticity domain sizes during quasistatic yielding.
  • Discovered a mesoscopic power-law decay in vorticity spectra, indicating anomalous kinetic energy dissipation.
  • Explained the power-law decay (enstrophy cascades) using dimensional analysis, incorporating shear rate dependence.

Conclusions:

  • Vorticity fields in dense granular flows display complex, non-Gaussian statistics.
  • Mesoscopic enstrophy cascades occur, driven by anomalous local structures of kinetic energy dissipation.
  • Dimensional analysis successfully explains the observed scaling laws for vorticity spectra, granular temperature, and rotational kinetic energy.