MIXING OF A GRANULAR MATERIAL IN A BIDIMENSIONAL ROTATING DRUM

被引:110
作者
CLEMENT, E
RAJCHENBACH, J
DURAN, J
机构
[1] Laboratoire d Acoustique et d’Optique de la Matière Condensée, Paris, 75005, URA 800 Université P. et M. Curie - 4, Place Jussieu
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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 1995年 / 30卷 / 01期
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10.1209/0295-5075/30/1/002
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report experimental measurements on the mixing properties of a powder. We study a 2D model granular medium confined in a half-filled rotating drum. Using an image-processing device, we follow the trajectories of tracer particles in a monodisperse assembly of beads. Tracer particles with different size ratios exhibit a violent segregation effect: a smaller particle has a tendency to stay in the centre and a larger one will rather dwell on the edges. Furthermore, for a tracer of identical size, we evidence a specific dispersion property where the centre and the edges are competing attractors of the mixing dynamics.
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