Surface band segregation and internal convection in rotating sphere densely filled with granular material: Experiments
arXiv:2108.10507 · doi:10.1063/5.0072059
Abstract
While granular segregation in partially filled containers has been studied extensively, granular dynamics in densely filled spheres is not fully understood. Here, surface band segregation and granular convection are reported in a rotating sphere of highly compacted glass beads. Distinct from Rayleigh-Benard convection, granular convection has a butterfly-shaped structure with vortexes of alternating layers of small/large beads, which is stable and independent of the sphere size. Two concentric interfaces at the zero tangential/norm flux are discovered, which divide the sphere into three layers from the surface to the core. The law that governs the jamming dynamics in rotating spheres remains an open question.
arXiv comment14 pages, 9 figures
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