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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 14, Issue 10, Pages 3439-3448Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1503354
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The discharge of granular material from a hopper subject to vertical sinusoidal oscillations was investigated using experiments and discrete element computer simulations. With the hopper exit closed, side-wall convection cells are observed, oriented such that particles move up along the inclined walls of the hopper and down at the center line. The convection cells are a result of the granular bed dilation during free fall and the subsequent interaction with the hopper walls. The mass discharge rate for a vibrating hopper scaled by the discharge rate without vibration reaches a maximum value at a dimensionless velocity amplitude just greater than 1. Further increases in the velocity decrease the discharge rate. This decrease occurs due to a decrease in the bulk density of the discharging material when vibration is applied. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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