Rheophysics of dense granular materials: Discrete simulation of plane shear flows
Rheophysics of dense granular materials: Discrete simulation of plane shear flows
We study the steady plane shear flow of a dense assembly of frictional, inelastic disks using discrete simulation and prescribing the pressure and the shear rate. We show that, in the limit of rigid grains, the shear state is determined by a single dimensionless number, called inertial number I, which …