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4/3-Law of Granular Particles Flowing through a Vertical Pipe

Osamu Moriyama, Naoya Kuroiwa, Mitsugu Matsushita, Hisao Hayakawa

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9802174

Abstract

Density waves of granular material (sand) flowing through a vertical pipe have been investigated. Clear density waves emerge when the cock attached to bottom end of the pipe is closed. The FFT power spectra were found to show a stable power-law form P(f) f-α. The value of the exponent was evaluated as α 4/3. We also introduce a simple one-dimensional model which reproduces α= 4/3 from both simulation and theoretical analysis. (to be published in Phys.Rev.Lett.)

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