title: Jamming of Granular Flow in a Two-Dimensional Hopper.
abstract: We study experimentally the jamming phenomenon of granular flow of monodisperse disks of D = 5 mm diameter in a two-dimensional hopper with opening R. The jamming probability J(d) is measured where d identical withR/D. We found that J(d) decreases from 1 to zero when d increases from 2 to 5. From observing the disk configurations of the arch in the jamming events, the jamming probability can be explained quantitatively by treating the arch as the trajectory of a restricted random walker.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 115, Republic of China.
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: To
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Pak