Hysteretic transition between avalanches and continuous flow in rotated granular systems |
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Authors: | Linz Stefan J Hager Wolfgang Hanggi Peter |
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Institution: | Theoretische Physik I, Institut fur Physik, Universitat Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Experiments in drums or cylinders partly filled with a granular system and rotated constantly about their horizontally aligned axis of symmetry show a hysteretic transition from discrete avalanches to continuous flow if the rotation rate is adiabatically changed. Herein, we show that this hysteresis can be explained by the impact of global Langevin-type fluctuations in a recently proposed minimal model for surface flow along granular piles. For too large magnitudes of the fluctuations corresponding to almost elastic grains, the hysteresis vanishes. This might explain why molecular dynamical simulations were not yet able to detect the hysteretic transition. (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics. |
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