Capillary bulldozing of sedimented granular material confined in a millifluidic tube

Autor: Knut Jørgen Måløy, Bjørnar Sandnes, Eirik Grude Flekkøy, Guillaume Dumazer
Přispěvatelé: PoreLab, University of Oslo (UiO), The Njord center, Département Procédés de Mise en oeuvre des Milieux Granulaires (PMMG-ENSMSE), Centre Sciences des Processus Industriels et Naturels (SPIN-ENSMSE), École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Étienne MSE), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Étienne MSE), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire Georges Friedel (LGF-ENSMSE), Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Étienne MSE), College of Engineering [Swansea], Swansea University, University of Oslo - The Njord center - PoreLab, Swansea University - College of Engineering
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review Fluids
Physical Review Fluids, American Physical Society, 2020, 5 (3), pp.034309. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.034309⟩
ISSN: 2469-990X
Popis: International audience; The motion of a capillary interface across a deformable granular material in a confined geometry shows the complex interplay between viscous forces, solid friction, and capillary forces. In a horizontal quasi-one-dimensional geometrical confinement, a millifluidic tube, the displacement of a three-phase flow consisting of two fluids and a mobile granular phase exhibits viscous or frictional displacement regimes, as shown in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 028002 (2016).]. In the present paper we explore in detail the dynamics in both regimes by making use of a new set of data. The viscous displacement regime which is characterized by a fluidization of the immersed granular material dragged by the flow driving the displacement of the capillary interface is interpreted from a rheological point of view. The frictional displacement regime which displays a self-structuring of the granular material left in the tube behind the invading capillary interface is interpreted by using a model based on the Janssen law to predict the typical size of the plugs obtained.
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