Measurement of particle motions within tumbling granular flows.
Flowing granular materials are complex, industrially important, and scientifically provocative. In this paper we report measurements of granular transport in 3-dimensional tumbling containers. We use magnetic resonance imaging techniques for direct tracking of particles and measure the interior flows of granular materials. One goal is to measure industrial mixer performance over a wide range of conditions. As the mixer geometries are relatively simple, such measurements could serve as incisive tests during development of better granular equations of motion. (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics.
Metcalfe
Guy
G
CSIRO Thermal and Fluids Engineering, Box 56 Graham Rd, Highett Victoria 3190, Australia.
Graham
Lachlan
L
Zhou
James
J
Liffman
Kurt
K