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Granular core phenomenon induced by convection in a vertically vibrated cylindrical container
Jing Sun1, Chuanping Liu1,2, Ping Wu3
1School of Energy and Environment Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
A mixture of 13X molecular sieve (13XMS) particles and glass particles with identical diameters is placed in a cylindrical container. Under vertical vibration, heavier glass particles tend to cluster and are wrapped inside the convection of 13XMS particles, resulting in the granular core phenomenon. The vibration frequency f strongly influences particle convection and particle cluster modes. By contrast, the effect of the dimensionless acceleration amplitude Γ can be neglected. For different f ranges, the granular core is classified as center-type and ring-type cores. For the center-type core, heavy particles are distributed as an approximate zeroth-order Bessel function of the first kind in the radial direction and an exponential function in the height direction. For the ring-type core, the concentration of heavy particles follows the power-series function in the radial direction. A granular transport model is then established based on heavy-particle movements under steady state to analyze the effect of vibration parameters and granular convection on density segregation.
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