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Flowers in flour: Avalanches in cohesive granular matter

E. Freyssingeas, M.-J. Dalbe, and J.-C. Géminard

  • Université de Lyon, Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, 46 Allée d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon cedex 07, France.

Phys. Rev. E 83, 051307 – Published 27 May, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.051307

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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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