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The granular monoclinal wave
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2018
Abstract
We study granular chute flow using the classic Saint-Venant approach, with the shear stresses within the granular sheet being incorporated via a friction law due to Pouliquen & Forterre (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 453, 2002, pp. 113–151) and with the in-plane stresses (which are ignored in the traditional formulation for normal fluids) being represented by a viscous-like term recently derived by Gray & Edwards (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 755, 2014, pp. 503–534). On the basis of this model, we predict that the granular sheet is able to sustain monoclinal waves, i.e. travelling shock structures that monotonically connect a thick region of uniform flow to a thinner one. We examine the balance of forces that determine the shape of this particular waveform and give the precise window of system parameters for which monoclinal waves are expected to appear in experiments.
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