Granular flows occur in a wide range of situations of practical interest to industry, in our natural environment and in our everyday lives. This paper focuses on granular flow in the so-called inertial regime, when the rheology is independent of the very large particle stiffness. Such flows have been modelled with the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(I),\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}(I)$ -rheology, which postulates that the bulk friction coefficient $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$ (i.e. the ratio of the shear stress to the pressure) and the solids volume fraction $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}$ are functions of the inertial number $I$ only. Although the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(I),\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}(I)$ -rheology has been validated in steady state against both experiments and discrete particle simulations in several different geometries, it has recently been shown that this theory is mathematically ill-posed in time-dependent problems. As a direct result, computations using this rheology may blow up exponentially, with a growth rate that tends to infinity as the discretization length tends to zero, as explicitly demonstrated in this paper for the first time. Such catastrophic instability due to ill-posedness is a common issue when developing new mathematical models and implies that either some important physics is missing or the model has not been properly formulated. In this paper an alternative to the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(I),\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}(I)$ -rheology that does not suffer from such defects is proposed. In the framework of compressible $I$ -dependent rheology (CIDR), new constitutive laws for the inertial regime are introduced; these match the well-established $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(I)$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}(I)$ relations in the steady-state limit and at the same time are well-posed for all deformations and all packing densities. Time-dependent numerical solutions of the resultant equations are performed to demonstrate that the new inertial CIDR model leads to numerical convergence towards physically realistic solutions that are supported by discrete element method simulations.
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COUNTING CONJUGACY CLASSES IN
We show that if a finitely generated group $G$ has a nonelementary WPD action on a hyperbolic metric space $X$ , then the number of $G$ -conjugacy classes of $X$ -loxodromic elements of $G$ coming from a ball of radius $R$ in the Cayley graph of $G$ grows exponentially in $R$ . As an application we prove that for $N\geq 3$ the number of distinct $\text{Out}(F_{N})$ -conjugacy classes of fully irreducible elements $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}$ from an $R$ -ball in the Cayley graph of $\text{Out}(F_{N})$ with $\log \unicode[STIX]{x1D706}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D719})$ of the order of $R$ grows exponentially in $R$ .
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- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10058398
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
- Volume:
- 97
- Issue:
- 03
- ISSN:
- 0004-9727
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 412 to 421
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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