
Department of Physics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
3-30-2012
Abstract
We present experiments on a monolayer of air-fluidized beads in which a jamming transition is approached by increasing pressure, increasing packing fraction, and decreasing kinetic energy. This is accomplished, along with a noninvasive measurement of pressure, by tilting the system and examining behavior versus depth. We construct an equation of state and analyze relaxation time versus effective temperature. By making time and effective temperature dimensionless using factors of pressure, bead size, and bead mass, we obtain a good collapse of the data but to a functional form that differs from that of thermal hard-sphere systems. The relaxation time appears to diverge only as the effective temperature to pressure ratio goes to zero.
Recommended Citation
Daniels, L. J., Haxton, T. K., Xu, N., Liu, A. J., & Durian, D. J. (2012). Temperature-Pressure Scaling for Air-Fluidized Grains near Jamming. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/physics_papers/248
Date Posted: 28 June 2012
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Daniels, L. J., Haxton, T. K., Xu, N., Liu, A. J., & Durian, D. J. (2012). Temperature-Pressure Scaling for Air-Fluidized Grains near Jamming. Physical Review Letters, 108(13), 138001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.138001
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