https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124903046
Effect of dissipation in rapid-gravitational granular flows
Univ Rennes, CNRS, Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR 6251, 35042 Cedex Rennes, France
* e-mail: alexandre.valance@univ-rennes1.fr
Published online: 7 June 2021
We investigate numerically high speed granular flows down an incline and focus our attention on the influence of the restitution coefficient e of binary collisions on the nature of the flow regimes. We show in particular that e plays a major role in rapid flows. Decreasing e leads in general to denser flows but also quicker flows. The increase of the mean flow velocity with decreasing e is explained as the result of the clustering instability which produces a dense and cold core moving very fast as a plug.
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