Effect of finite container size on granular jet formation

Kann von, Stefan and Joubaud, Sylvain and Caballero-Robledo, Gabriel A. and Lohse, Detlef and Meer van der, Devaraj (2010) Effect of finite container size on granular jet formation. Physical Review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 81 (4). 041306. ISSN 1539-3755

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Abstract:	When an object is dropped into a bed of fine, loosely packed sand, a surprisingly energetic jet shoots out of the bed. In this work we study the effect that boundaries have on the granular jet formation. We did this by (i) decreasing the depth of the sand bed and (ii) reducing the container diameter to only a few ball diameters. These confinements change the behavior of the ball inside the bed, the void collapse, and the resulting jet height and shape. We map the parameter space of impact with Froude number, ambient pressure, and container dimensions as parameters. From these results we propose an explanation for the thick-thin structure of the jet reported by several groups ( J. R. Royer et al. Nat. Phys. 1 164 (2005), G. Caballero et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 018001 (2007), and J. O. Marston et al. Phys. Fluids 20 023301 (2008)).
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Fluids (POF)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/79252
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.81.041306
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