Abstract
The collapse of low-saturation liquid-containing granular materials is prevalent in nature and industrial processes, and understanding the associated transient dynamics is extremely important for exploring such complex flow processes. In this paper, the collapse of a finite-size wet granular column is systematically studied and the determinants affecting its dynamics are analyzed based on the discrete element model for wet particles and the corresponding small-scale experiments. With the aid of parametric analysis, the dimensionless cohesion parameter containing the system size and grain-scale bond number is proposed, and its relevance in characterizing column stability and collapse dynamics of wet granular materials is further confirmed. For the collapse of wet granular columns with a fixed aspect ratio, the initial height contained in the cohesion parameter is verified to be a manifestation of the finite size effect, which is present in a wet granular collapse and is coupled with the cohesive effect. Such a coupling effect is taken into account in our proposed scaling laws that can be applied to uniformly describe the deposit morphology of wet granular columns after collapse.
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