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Suppression and emergence of granular segregation under cyclic shear

arXiv:1302.3788 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.078001

Abstract

While convective flows are implicated in many granular segregation processes, the associated particle-scale rearrangements are not well understood. A three-dimensional bidisperse mixture segregates under steady shear, but the cyclically driven system either remains mixed or segregates slowly. Individual grain motion shows no signs of particle-scale segregation dynamics that precede bulk segregation. Instead, we find that the transition from non-segregating to segregating flow is accompanied by significantly less reversible particle trajectories, and the emergence of a convective flow field.

Accepted for Physical Review Letters

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