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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 140, 2017
Powders and Grains 2017 – 8th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media
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| Article Number | 04002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Granular gas | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714004002 | |
| Published online | 30 June 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714004002
Dissipative lateral walls are sufficient to trigger convection in vibrated granular gases
1 Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi—CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
2 Departamento de Física and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada (ICCAEx), Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
* e-mail: giorgio.pontuale@isc.cnr.it
** e-mail: andrea.gnoli@isc.cnr.it
*** e-mail: fvega@unex.es
**** e-mail: andrea.puglisi@roma1.infn.it
Published online: 30 June 2017
Buoyancy-driven (thermal) convection in dilute granular media, fluidized by a vibrating base, is known to appear without the need of lateral boundaries in a restricted region of parameters (inelasticity, gravity, intensity of energy injection). We have recently discovered a second buoyancy-driven convection effect which occurs at any value of the parameters, provided that the impact of particles with the lateral walls is inelastic (Pontuale et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 098006 (2016)). It is understood that this novel convection effect is strictly correlated to the existence of perpendicular energy fluxes: a vertical one, induced by both bulk and wall inelasticity, and a horizontal one, induced only by dissipation at the walls. Here we first review those previous results, and then present new experimental and numerical data concerning the variations of box geometry, intensity of energy injection, number of particles and width of the box.
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