Abstract
A two-dimensional dense fluid of frictional grains is shown to exhibit time-chaotic, spatially heterogeneous flow in a range of stress values, σ, chosen in the unstable region of s-shaped flow curves. Stress-controlled simulations reveal a phase diagram with reentrant stationary flow for small and large stress σ. In between, no steady flow state can be reached, instead the system either jams or displays time-dependent heterogeneous strain rates γ(r,t). The results of simulations are in agreement with the stability analysis of a simple hydrodynamic model, coupling stress and microstructure which we tentatively associate with the frictional contact network.
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