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What is a Granular System????

Team Project 3 Analysis of Granular Systems Advisor – Dr. Paul V. Quinn T.A. – Justin Hotchkiss Daniel Farnoly, Julie Wu, Hansun Hsiung, Tiffany Leung, William Nicoll, David Kelley, Benjamin Golub, Sonya Nikolaidis, Adam Shpigel, Jeremy Pfund. What is a Granular System????. MORE INFO.

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What is a Granular System????

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  1. Team Project 3Analysis of Granular SystemsAdvisor – Dr. Paul V. QuinnT.A. – Justin HotchkissDaniel Farnoly, Julie Wu, Hansun Hsiung, Tiffany Leung, William Nicoll, David Kelley, Benjamin Golub, Sonya Nikolaidis,Adam Shpigel, Jeremy Pfund

  2. What is a Granular System????

  3. MORE INFO • These particles display interesting behavior • Solid-like and fluid-like nature • This has led to much scientific study • Use of Computer Simulations

  4. Theory The fun stuff

  5. Relating Density and Height • Under gravity, pressure varies with vertical height • Pressure function for hard spheres • Used to find density profile

  6. Two dimensions: • Three dimensions:

  7. Condensation • Solid layers form at critical temperature • Critical temperature found by:

  8. Packing Density • Square packing for solid layers in one dimension • Density of solid layers ρ=π/4 → Φ=1

  9. Phase Transition of Granular Systems • Possibility of first-order transition • Implications Ehrenfest Classification of Phase Transitions First-Order Second Order => undefined at a certain point. => undefined at a certain point.

  10. Phase Transition of Granular Systems • The total energy of the granular system • Using the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics,

  11. Phase Transition of Granular Systems • If undefined, then undefined. • T < TC => • T > TC =>

  12. Simulations

  13. Event Driven Simulations • Hard-spheres in a temperature reservoir • Simulated using FORTRAN • “Event Driven” momentum calculations at varying time steps • Did multiple runs for varying μ

  14. More on Event-Driven Simulation • Program calculates • KEtot • Position • density • <z> • <z> v. T plotted • Using T=KE • Using T fit from density profile

  15. Molecular Dynamics Simulation • Temperature reservoir can simulate vibrating plate • Vibrational Strength

  16. Soft-Sphere Model • Fixed value of Δt • Leonard Jones Potential:

  17. The Kink • Obtain average center of mass, <z> • Density equation is fit to data to obtain T • Plot <z> v. T for different μ

  18. Visual Representation • Designed using Visual Basic • Displays particles and their movements in time • Observer can clearly visualize the system

  19. Program Visual Representation of Simulation

  20. We want kinki pictures!

  21. How can we get kinki pictures? • Computational approach: measuring the kinetic energy using ½ m < v2> (This takes forever. We could have been doing it since the chalcolithic era.) • Fitting the density profiles – get T from ζ(Φ)

  22. Measuring the Kinetic Energy(Data from MD Simulations)

  23. Theoretical Way • Boltzman: T = 2.5 E -7 • Enskog: T= 2.5 E -7 This is the 2D temperature!

  24. More proof of a kink This makes me so damn excited.

  25. CONCLUSIONS Why was he so damn excited?

  26. First Order Transition Goes from solid-expansion parabolic to liquid-expansion linear function.

  27. Works Like 2D density profile -Boltzman -Hard-sphere

  28. Only box size changes. 1D and 2D can be compared because the mechanics are the same.

  29. Modeling Granular Systems Can use a known, simple theory to model more complex systems.

  30. Future work

  31. New Tasks for a New Millennium • Phase transitions in two and three dimensional systems. • Does a three dimensional density profile fit a one dimensional system? • Explore the vibrating wall system in more detail.

  32. Future applications of granular systems… • Studying earthquakes

  33. More applications... • Mixing and processing substances in industry (pharmaceuticals)

  34. Even Breakfast Cereals The packing of breakfast cereals requires the efficient packing of granular units

  35. SURACE!!!!!! AAAHHH I think I’ll call him Mini-Surace (double points)

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