The translational and rotational motions of a cylindrical particle in a granular shear flow inside a split bottom Couette cell
The translational and rotational motions of a cylindrical particle in a granular shear flow inside a split bottom Couette cell
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DOI:
10.1063/5.0015175
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发表时间:
2020-07-01
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Wu, Huixuan
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作者:
Tao, Xingtian;Wu, Huixuan
The motion of a sample particle in a Couette-cell granular flow is measured using the magnetic particle tracking technology. This technology allows simultaneous measurements of translation and rotation of an individual grain in an opaque environment. The anisotropic sample particle is a cylinder with an aspect ratio 1, and the other grains in the flow are spherical balls. The trajectory shows that the particle in the studied Couette cell with a split bottom moves in a layered structure. The orientation distribution shows that the cylindrical particle prefers to align in specific directions, even though the aspect ratio is low and the shear motion should not cause strong alignment. A symbolic-based method is used to examine the jumping between spatial layers and the flipping among preferred directions. The result shows that the duration of particle staying in a preferred state is much longer than the duration of transition. In addition, a jumping particle has a higher chance to flip. In the bulk flow, the translational energy varies significantly along the radial direction. The magnitude of translational kinetic energy is generally much larger than the rotational motion.