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Rheology of a dense granular bed penetrated by a rotating impeller

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POWDER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 386, Issue -, Pages 60-69

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DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2021.03.029

Keywords

Granular media; Rheometer; Rheology; Non-local; Viscosity; Kinetic theory

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51806099]
  2. EPSRC Programme Grant: Virtual Formulation Laboratory Grant of the EPSRC Future Formulation Programme [EP/N025261/1]

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Understanding the rheological behavior of fully three-dimensional and non-uniform particle flow is crucial. By analyzing the resistance exhibited by a granular bed as a rotating impeller penetrates into it, the rheological characteristics of the bed can be deduced. The relationship between shear strain rate, inertia number, and bulk friction coefficient differs between spherical and rodlike particles.
Understanding of the rheological behaviour of fully three-dimensional and non-uniform particle flow is of great interest. We analyse the resistance exhibited by a granular bed as a rotating impeller is penetrated into it, from which the rheological characteristics of the bed are deduced. For this end, the transient rheological response of both spherical and rodlike particles is simulated by Discrete Element Method. Transition from quasi-static to intermediate flow regime of rodlike particles is found to occur at a much larger shear strain rate than that of spherical particles. The relationship between the bulk friction coefficient and the inertial number is not monotonic. The viscosity of particle flow is inferred from the blade torque and is related to the inertial number and granular temperature, for which a power law is obtained covering both quasi-static and intermediate flow regimes. It can be used for obtaining flow field in complex geometry and dynamics using continuum mechanics by Computational Fluid Dynamics. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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