| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 140, 2017
Powders and Grains 2017 – 8th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media
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| Article Number | 04004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Granular gas | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714004004 | |
| Published online | 30 June 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714004004
Cluster splitting in granular segregation driven by horizontal shaking
1 Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Navarra, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain
2 Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Heisenbergstraße 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
* e-mail: angel@unav.es
Published online: 30 June 2017
In a recent work [C. Lozano et al. Phys. Rev. Lett 114, 178002 (2015)] segregation in an horizontally shaken granular layer was studied by analysing the particle-particle interactions in the simplest case possible of a two particles cluster. There, it was found that all clusters are transient (they eventually split if one waits long enough) and the probability distribution function of the separation times displays a power law tail, indicating that the splitting probability is not constant over time. Here, we extend this study to clusters of 3, 5, 10 and 20 particles where we also observe the power law decay of the distribution of cluster splitting time. In addition, we observe a weak increase of the average cluster splitting time with the cluster size, suggesting that interaction forces are non-additive. Finally, we show interesting statistics on the way in which clusters break suggesting that escaping of individual particles in the cluster borders is more likely than cluster breakage in subclusters of similar size.
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