Jamming transition and emergence of fracturing in wet granular media
Jamming transition and emergence of fracturing in wet granular media
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevresearch.2.022012
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发表时间:
2020-04-13
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Juanes, Ruben
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作者:
Meng, Yue;Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K.;Juanes, Ruben
We study fluid-induced deformation of granular media, and the fundamental role of capillarity and wettability on the emergence of fracture patterns. We develop a hydromechanical computational model, coupling a "moving capacitor" dynamic network model of two-phase flow at the pore scale with a discrete element model of grain mechanics. We simulate the slow injection of a less viscous fluid into a frictional granular pack initially saturated with a more viscous, immiscible fluid. We study the impact of wettability and initial packing density, and find four different regimes of the fluid invasion: cavity expansion and fracturing, frictional fingers, capillary invasion, and capillary compaction. We explain fracture initiation as emerging from a jamming transition, and synthesize the system's behavior in the form of a phase diagram of jamming for wet granular media.