https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124903024
Sidewall friction in confined surface flows of granular materials
1
MAST-GPEM, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, F-44344 Bouguenais, France
2
IPR, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS UMR 6251, Campus Beaulieu, F-35042 Rennes, France
* e-mail: patrick.richard@univ-eiffel.fr
** e-mail: alexandre.valance@univ-rennes1.fr
*** e-mail: renaud.delannay@univ-rennes1.fr
Published online: 7 June 2021
We report numerical simulations of surface granular flows confined between two sidewalls. These systems exhibit both very slow and very energetic flows. Zhu et al. [1] have shown that in energetic confined systems, the Froude number at sidewalls and the sidewall effective friction coefficient are linked through a unique relation. We show that this relation is also valid for creep flows. It is independent of the angle of the flow but depends on the sidewall-grain friction coefficient. Our results shed light on boundary conditions that have to be used at sidewalls in continuum theories aiming to capture the behavior of granular systems from creeping to energetic flows.
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