Jamming in granular shear flows of frictional, polydisperse cylindrical particles

Abstract

In this work, frictional, cylindrical particle shear flows with different size distributions (monodisperse, binary, Gaussian, uniform) are simulated using the Discrete Element Method (DEM). The influences of particle size distribution and interparticle friction coefficient on the solid phase stresses, bulk friction coefficient, and jamming transition are investigated. In frictional dense flows, shear stresses rise rapidly with the increasing solid volume fraction when jamming occurs. The results suggest that at the jamming volume fraction, stress fluctuation and granular temperature achieve the maximum values, and the rate of the stress increase with increasing solid volume fraction approaches the peak value. Meanwhile, the degree of cylindrical particle alignment approaches a valley value. In the polydisperse flows, the jamming volume fraction exhibits significant dependences on the fraction of the longer particles and the particle size distribution. Two models considering the effect of particle size distribution are discussed for predicting the jamming volume fractions of polydisperse flows with frictional, cylindrical particles.