title: Bubbles breaking the wall: Two-dimensional stress and stability analysis.
abstract: Submerged granular material exhibits a wide range of behavior when the saturating fluid is slowly displaced by a gas phase. In confined systems, the moving interface between the invading gas and the fluid/grain mixture can cause beads to jam, and induce intermittency in the dynamics. Here, we study the stability of layers of saturated jammed beads around stuck air bubbles, and the deformation mechanism leading to air channel formations in these layers. We describe a two-dimensional extension of a previous model of the effective stress in the jammed packing. The effect of the tangential stress component on the yield stress is discussed, in particular how arching effects may impact the yield threshold. We further develop a linear stability analysis, to study undulations which develop under certain experimental conditions at the air-liquid interface. The linear analysis gives estimates for the most unstable wavelengths for the initial growth of the perturbations. The estimates correspond well with peak to peak length measurements of the experimentally observed undulations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1048 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway and Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg/EOST, CNRS, 5 rue Descartes, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Jon Alm
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Eriksen
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1048 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway and College of Engineering, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP Swansea, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Benjy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.affiliation: College of Engineering, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP Swansea, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Bjørnar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sandnes
authors.affiliation: Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg/EOST, CNRS, 5 rue Descartes, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, Franceand Department of Physics, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1048 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Renaud
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Toussaint