受振颗粒“毛细”系统中的对流与有序化

将球形颗粒倒入内径较窄的管状容器时,管壁的曲率会对颗粒的堆积结构产生影响,存在壁效应. 实验表明通过连续的竖直方向的振动,壁效应可以被强化,颗粒可以经由对流由无序排列转变为稳定的同轴筒形“壳层”结构. 每一壳层内,颗粒是二维的六角密堆积, 在这一转变过程中,颗粒堆积率的径向分布由初始的衰减振荡转变为等幅振荡. 分析了堆积率的不均匀性及空气在对流中的作用,以及形成“壳层”结构的动力学过程,对“壳层”结构的稳定性亦进行了讨论. 关键词： 颗粒物质 对流 有序化 毛细     

Instabilities in vertically vibrated fluid-grain systems

When a bed of fluid-immersed fine grains is exposed to vertical vibration a wealth of phenomena may be observed. At low frequencies a horizontal bed geometry is generally unstable and the bed breaks spatial symmetry, acquiring a tilt. At the same time it undergoes asymmetric granular convection. Fine binary mixtures may separate completely into layers or patterns of stripes. The separated regions may exhibit instabilities in which they undergo wave-like motion or exhibit quasi-periodic oscillations. We briefly review these and a number of related behaviours, identifying the physical mechanisms behind each. Finally, we discuss the magneto-vibratory separation of binary mixtures which results from exposing each component to a different effective gravity and describe the influence of a background fluid on this process.     

振动颗粒物质中倍周期运动对尺寸分离的影响

实验研究了竖直振动颗粒床中,倍周期运动对尺寸分离的影响.实验中,当振动加速度足够大时,系统中出现稳定的对称对流,进一步增大振动加速度到某个临界值时,还会出现倍周期运动.观察表明,背景颗粒的对流运动对分离过程起主导作用,对流速度决定着分离过程的快慢,而在2倍周期和4倍周期分岔之后,分离时间有所减慢.对引起对流运动的起因进行了分析,以此为基础分析了倍周期运动产生影响的物理机理,并对分离时间进行了定量计算,结果与实验值符合很好. 关键词： 颗粒物质 “巴西果”效应 倍周期分岔 对流     

Phase boundaries in vertically vibrated granular materials

A boundary structure is observed in beds of vertically vibrated granular materials separating regions of opposite phase. This structure is investigated and it is identified as giving rise to both a global kink and hexagonal patterns. A global phase diagram of surface patterns on a vibrated bed is presented.     

竖直振动激励下的准二维容器中颗粒物质的对流运动

通过实验测量了准二维容器中颗粒物质对流运动的轨迹、流动区域、速率分布及周长和周期.实验结果表明:与流体的一般流动不同,准二维容器中颗粒物质的对流即使在流速不大的情况下也是非稳定流动.分析了影响对流非稳定性的因素,引入q因子,通过流量守恒定律半定量地确定了各因素对流动非稳定性的影响程度.     

振动颗粒混合物中的三明治式分离

在竖直振动两种颗粒的混合物的实验中，观察到了一种新的分离现象——“三明治”式分离，即大而重的颗粒被夹在两层小的轻颗粒之间.这不同于“巴西果”效应导致的大而重的颗粒在上的两层有序结构.实验表明当振动加速度大于某个临界值时这种三层有序将取代两层结构，而且是稳定的.实验中观察到导致“三明治”式分离的两种不同的分离过程.对这两种过程的物理机理及其与振动加速度、振动频率及颗粒尺寸等因素的关系做了研究，并给出了相图. 关键词： 颗粒物质 振动 有序结构 三明治式分离 巴西果效应     

竖直振动颗粒床中的倍周期运动

实验研究了竖直振动颗粒床中颗粒对容器底部的压力随振动强度的变化情况.发现压力随振动加速度的增加经历倍周期分岔，典型的分岔序列为：2P，4P，混沌，3P，6P，混沌，4P，8P，混沌.观察表明，伴随倍周期分岔现象，在颗粒床底部出现颗粒的聚集态.聚集态内颗粒密堆积在一起并作整体的上下运动.采用完全非弹性蹦球模型分析了颗粒对容器底的冲击力，并给出了倍周期分岔现象的一种解释. 关键词： 颗粒物质 混沌 倍周期分岔 非弹性碰撞     

竖直振动颗粒物厚层中冲击力分岔现象

实验研究了竖直振动颗粒物厚层中颗粒对容器底部的压力. 发现这种压力是脉冲式的，并表现出受振动加速度控制的倍周期分岔现象. 在颗粒层底部观察到颗粒密堆积在一起的聚集态. 聚集态内颗粒的自由程较小，并像一个整体一样运动. 关键词： 颗粒物质 混沌 倍周期分岔 非弹性碰撞     

Localized subharmonic waves in a circularly vibrated granular bed

Localized period-doubling waves arise in circularly shaken granular beds contained in an annular channel. These solitary wave packets are accompanied by a locally increased particle density. The width and velocity of the granular wave pulse are measured as a function of the bed height. A continuum model for the material distribution, based on the measured granular transport velocity as a function of the bed thickness, captures the essence of the experimental findings.     

Energy fluctuations in vibrated and driven granular gases

We investigate the behavior of energy fluctuations in several models of granular gases maintained in a non-equilibrium steady state. In the case of a gas heated from a boundary, the inhomogeneities of the system play a predominant role. Interpreting the total kinetic energy as a sum of independent but not identically distributed random variables, it is possible to compute the probability density function (pdf) of the total energy. Neglecting correlations and using the analytical expression for the inhomogeneous temperature profile obtained from the granular hydrodynamic equations, we recover results that have previously been observed numerically and that had been attributed to the presence of correlations. In order to separate the effects of spatial inhomogeneities from those ascribable to velocity correlations, we have also considered two models of homogeneously thermostated gases: in this framework it is possible to reveal the presence of non-trivial effects due to velocity correlations between particles. Such correlations stem from the inelasticity of collisions. Moreover, the observation that the pdf of the total energy tends to a Gaussian in the large system limit suggests that they are also due to the finite size of the system.     

垂直振动作用下二元混合颗粒分层的动态循环反转

在对垂直振动下的铜颗粒和氧化铝颗粒混合物的研究中,除了观测到巴西果分层和混合分层外,还发现了一种新的随时间周期变化的分离形态. 此分离形态可随着时间的演化,在巴西果、反巴西果和三明治这几种分层构型之间进行动态的循环反转. 给出了这种反转态出现的相区,并且观测了其动态转变的规律. 根据碰撞、磨擦及空气的耗散作用所产生的耗散结构对循环反转态的出现给出了定性的解释,并通过实验证实这种分层构型与空气的存在有密切的关系. 关键词： 颗粒物质 巴西果效应 相分离     

Reverse buoyancy in a vibrated granular bed: Computer simulations

We have performed molecular dynamics simulations of an intruder in a vibrated granular bed including interstitial fluid effects to account for the phenomenon of reverse buoyancy. We show that our model is able to reproduce the overall behaviour observed by previous experimental works and is the first finite-elements simulation to show the sinking of intruders lighter than the granular bed. To further advance our comprehension of this phenomenon, we studied the motion of the intruders in a single vibration cycle with respect to the bottom of the granular column, finding a substantial qualitative difference for heavy and light intruders and we compare these results with experiments using fine-sized glass beads. We show that, though heavy intruders seem unaffected by the force due to the fluid, the effect on light intruders is remarkable.      

Gas-driven subharmonic waves in a vibrated two-phase granular material

Vibrated powders exhibit striking phenomena: subharmonic waves, oscillons, convection, heaping, and even bubbling. We demonstrate novel rectangular profile subharmonic waves for vibrated granular material, that occur uniquely in the two-phase case of grains, and a fluid, such as air. These waves differ substantially from those for the gas-free case, exhibit different dispersion relations, and occur for specific shaking parameters and air pressure, understandable with gas-particle flow models. These waves occur when the gas diffusively penetrates the granular layer in a time comparable to the shaker period. As the pressure is lowered towards P =0, the granular-gas system exhibits a Knudsen regime. This instability provides an opportunity to quantitatively test models of two-phase flow.     

Cellular model for the compaction of a vertically tapped granular column

A cellular model for the compaction of granular material is described. It takes into account horizontal redistribution as well as vertical transfer of particles. Parameters are the width of the horizontal redistribution and the settling probability. Numerical simulations of the behaviour of a granular column in a container are shown as an example, and the evolution of some characteristic features over time has been followed for some typical configurations. Experimental results for the time evolution of the density can be reproduced for a settling probability proportional to the unoccupied spaces for particles in the lower cells. Received 3 March 2000 and Received in final form 21 July 2000     

Convection, heaping, and cracking in vertically vibrated granular slurries

We address the situation in which vibration is applied to thin layers of granular material with water filling the pore space, but with air above. Beyond a critical drive parameter we observe heap-shaped convecting domains of nontrivial topology, which exhibit cracks as the forcing amplitude is further increased. We summarize these results in a phase diagram, understand the onset of the convecting heaps as a manifestation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability for fluids, and measure the response of isolated convecting structures.     

Fluctuations of internal energy flow in a vibrated granular gas

The nonequilibrium fluctuations of power flux in a fluidized granular media have been recently measured in an experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 164301 (2004)], which was announced to be a verification of the fluctuation relation (FR) by Gallavotti and Cohen. An effective temperature was also identified and proposed to be a useful probe for such nonequilibrium systems. We explain these results in terms of a two-temperature Poisson process. Within this model, supported by independent molecular dynamics simulations, power flux fluctuations do not satisfy the FR and the nature of the effective temperature is clarified. In the pursuit of a hypothetical global quantity fulfilling the FR, this points to the need of considering candidates other than the power flux.     

A quasi-elastic regime for vibrated granular gases

Using simple scaling arguments and two-dimensional numerical simulations of a granular gas excited by vibrating one of the container boundaries, we study a double limit of small 1-r and large L, where r is the restitution coefficient and L the size of the container. We show that if the particle density n₀ and (1-r²)(n₀ Ld) where d is the particle diameter, are kept constant and small enough, the granular temperature, i.e. the mean value of the kinetic energy per particle, 〈E 〉/N, tends to a constant whereas the mean dissipated power per particle, 〈D 〉/N, decreases like when N increases, provided that (1-r²)(n₀ Ld)² < 1. The relative fluctuations of E, D and the power injected by the moving boundary, I, have simple properties in that regime. In addition, the granular temperature can be determined from the fluctuations of the power I(t) injected by the moving boundary.     

Force fluctuations in a vertically pushed granular column

We present series of experiments on the resistance force encountered by a bottom piston pushing a vertical granular column confined in a two-dimensional cell. We show that, due to the presence of friction at the boundaries and between the grains, the signal shows many complex features. At slow driving velocities, we observe a transition to a stick-slip dynamic instability. Depending on the granular material used, the elementary stick-slip events may either be well characterized or largely distributed. We present a statistical study on the waiting time between events and the distribution of energy release as a function of the spring stiffness and the driving velocity. Received 5 August 1998 and Received in final form 22 October 1998