PATTERN FORMATION IN NONCOHESIVE AND COHESIVE GRANULAR MEDIA

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作者
Lemaire, E. [2 ]
Abdelhaye, Y. Ould Mohamed [1 ]
Larue, J. [1 ]
Benoit, R. [1 ]
Levitz, P. [1 ]
Van Damme, H. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Orleans, CNRS, Ctr Rech Mat Divisee, F-45071 Orleans 02, France
[2] IRSID, F-78105 St Germain En Laye, France
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10.1142/S0218348X93001040
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O1 [数学];
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0701 ; 070101 ;
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We studied pattern formation in granular media in two distinct states: in the dry and non-cohesive (powder) state, on the one hand, and in the wet and cohesive (paste) state, on the other. In the first case, we have shown that gas injection in a thin layer of powder within a He le Shaw cell leads to fractal patterns remarkably similar to viscous fingering patterns obtained with complex fluids. In the second case, we have shown that the tensile cohesive viscoplastic fracture of a layer of paste leads to self-affine rough surfaces with a Hurst exponent close to 0.88, very close to the value obtained for fragile fracture by other authors.(18) Our observations reinforce the universality of two fractal growth processes and add a new element to the ambivalent nature of the granular state of matter.
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