TY - JOUR T1 - Viscoinertial regime of immersed granular flows JF - Physical Review E Y1 - 2017 A1 - L. Amarsid A1 - Jean-Yves Delenne A1 - Patrick Mutabaruka A1 - Yann Monerie A1 - Perales, F. A1 - Farhang Radjaï AB -

By means of extensive coupled molecular dynamics–lattice Boltzmann simulations, accounting for grain dynamics and subparticle resolution of the fluid phase, we analyze steady inertial granular flows sheared by a viscous fluid. We show that, for a broad range of system parameters (shear rate, confining stress, fluid viscosity, and relative fluid-grain density), the frictional strength and packing fraction can be described by a modified inertial number incorporating the fluid effect. In a dual viscous description, the effective viscosity diverges as the inverse square of the difference between the packing fraction and its jamming value, as observed in experiments. We also find that the fabric and force anisotropies extracted from the contact network are well described by the modified inertial number, thus providing clear evidence for the role of these key structural parameters in dense suspensions.

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VL - 96 IS - 1 JO - Phys. Rev. E ER -