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Nasses Granulat mit variabler Koordinationszahl

Fachliche Zuordnung Statistische Physik, Nichtlineare Dynamik, Komplexe Systeme, Weiche und fluide Materie, Biologische Physik
Förderung Förderung von 2015 bis 2021
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 290337193
 
Erstellungsjahr 2021

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Understanding the dynamics of wet granular matter (e.g. wet sand on the beach) from a physical perspective is a topic of building fundamentals for a wide range of applications with substantial impact on our society: From the prediction of natural disasters (e.g. landslide, debris flow) to the enhancement of energy efficiency in industries (e.g. granulation process). At the ‘microscopic’ scale, our investigation on ‘patchy’ particle-particle interactions as well as energy injection into different DoF through mechanical agitations shed light on the development of more sophisticated models for large scale simulations of wet granular materials, which are abundant in nature and are typically composed of irregular shaped particles. At the ‘macroscopic’ scale, our investigations on the critical behavior (e.g. orderdisorder transition) in agitated wet granular matter – a nonequilibrium model system – revealed that the existing knowledge for systems in thermodynamic equilibrium can be extended to understand granular dynamics, provided that the particles are effectively mobilized. We identified a ‘rotator-crystal’ phase, which builds another bridge to existing equilibrium systems. The techniques developed in the project shall shed light on a broader audience: For instance chemists working in drop-on-demand applications are currently using the inkjet printing technique, the set-voronoi technique can be potentially useful for pedestrian follow analysis, radar technique can be used in human-machine interactions and autonomous driving. We believe that further investigations in those directions can potentially build more interdisciplinary research in the future.

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