A constitutive model with microstructure evolution for flow of rate-independent granular materials

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 682, Issue , 2011, Pages 590-616

  Sun, Jin ^a   Sundaresan, Sankaran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

granular media; rheology

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; ELASTICITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRICTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY;

COMPLEX LOADING; COORDINATION NUMBER; EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; GRANULAR MEDIA; MACROSCOPIC FRICTION; MATERIAL CONSTANT; MICRO-STRUCTURE EVOLUTIONS; RATE INDEPENDENTS;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

CALIBRATION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; GRANULAR MEDIUM; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; RHEOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80052184382     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.251     Document Type: Article

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