Impact on Soft Sand: Void Collapse and Jet Formation

Autor: Ko van der Weele, Hans Kuipers, C. Zeilstra, Devaraj van der Meer, Detlef Lohse, René Mikkelsen, Raymond Bergmann, Martin Anton van der Hoef, Michel Versluis
Přispěvatelé: Faculty of Science and Technology, Physics of Fluids
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Physical review letters, 93(19). American Physical Society
5th International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media, Powders and Grains 2005
Scopus-Elsevier
ISSN: 1079-7114
0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.198003
Popis: Very fine sand is prepared in a well-defined and fully decompactified state by letting gas bubble through it. After turning off the gas stream, a steel ball is dropped on the sand. On impact of the ball, sand is blown away in all directions ("splash") and an impact crater forms. When this cavity collapses, a granular jet emerges and is driven straight into the air. A second jet goes downwards into the air bubble entrained during the process, thus pushing surface material deep into the ground. The air bubble rises slowly towards the surface, causing a granular eruption. In addition to the experiments and the discrete particle simulations we present a simple continuum theory to account for the void collapse leading to the formation of the upward and downward jets.
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