2003/09/01 by Dimitrios Geromichalos, Geromichalos, Dimitrios, Mario Scheel +3
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Granular flow and fluidized beds #Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0309038
submitted to Phys. Rev. E
arxiv created 2003/09/01 · openalex publication_date 2003/09/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We have studied the effect of small amounts of added liquid on the dynamic behavior of a granular system consisting of spherical glass beads. The critical acceleration Γ for fluidization is found to increase strongly when liquid is added. It furthermore depends on the bead radius, the height of the sample, and the shaking frequency. As our main result, we find that these dependencies can be presented in a factorized form. We present a simple model which accounts for most of our findings.