Linking bottleneck clogging with flow kinematics in granular materials: The role of silo width

• Main Authors: Gella, D., Maza, D., Zuriguel, I., Ashour, A., Arévalo, Roberto, Stannarius, R.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Statistical Physics; Nonlinear Dynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85957; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45372
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We demonstrate experimentally that clogging in a silo correlates with some features of the particle velocities in the outlet proximities. This finding, that links the formation of clogs with a kinematic property of the system, is obtained by looking at the effect that the position of the lateral wal...