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Dynamical behaviors of self-propulsion intruder buried in granular materials

Journal

SOFT MATTER
Volume 17, Issue 44, Pages 9997-10004

Publisher

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00934f

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11672072, 11172063, 11502050]

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This study investigates the spiral upward motion of self-propulsion intruders in granular media and establishes a dynamic model. The results show that the ascent of the intruders is influenced by the horizontal displacement and local fluidization parameters of the particles, with mechanisms involving dynamic particle buoyancy and particle Saffman lift.
Self-propulsion intruder motion in particles is common in the field of biomimetic and exploration instrument development. In this paper, numerical simulations and laboratory experiments are conducted for the spiral upward phenomenal motion of self-propulsion spherical intruder in granular media. Dynamic particle buoyancy and particle Saffman lift are proposed to establish a dynamic model of the intruder under horizontal simple harmonic excitations. The dependencies of the net particle lift force on the horizontal displacement and the local fluidization parameters of granular are discussed. The results show that horizontal displacement of the intruder and the coordination number of particles are jointly determined by the excitation amplitude and frequency, and the intruder starts to rise when they simultaneously reach the critical value. The dynamic particle buoyancy and particle Saffman lift have clarified the ascent mechanics. Meanwhile, the motion trajectory of intruder in space is inverted conical spiral, and the vibration causes the gap filling effect after the local particle fluidization is the mechanism of the intruder floating up motion.

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