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Mani R, Semprebon C, Kadau D, et al. Role of contact-angle hysteresis for fluid transport in wet granular matter. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2015;91(4):042204doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042204.
Mani, R., Semprebon, C., Kadau, D., Herrmann, H. J., Brinkmann, M., & Herminghaus, S. (2015). Role of contact-angle hysteresis for fluid transport in wet granular matter. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 91(4), 042204. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042204
Mani, Roman, et al. "Role of contact-angle hysteresis for fluid transport in wet granular matter." Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics vol. 91,4 (2015): 042204. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042204
Mani R, Semprebon C, Kadau D, Herrmann HJ, Brinkmann M, Herminghaus S. Role of contact-angle hysteresis for fluid transport in wet granular matter. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2015 Apr;91(4):042204. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042204. Epub 2015 Apr 30. PMID: 25974481.
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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2015 Apr;91(4):042204. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042204. Epub 2015 Apr 30.

Role of contact-angle hysteresis for fluid transport in wet granular matter.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

Roman Mani, Ciro Semprebon, Dirk Kadau, Hans J Herrmann, Martin Brinkmann, Stephan Herminghaus

Affiliations

  1. Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
  2. Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
  3. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará 60451-970, Brazil.
  4. Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.

PMID: 25974481 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042204

Abstract

The stability of sand castles is determined by the structure of wet granulates. Experimental data on the size distribution of fluid pockets are ambiguous with regard to their origin. We discovered that contact-angle hysteresis plays a fundamental role in the equilibrium distribution of bridge volumes, and not geometrical disorder as commonly conjectured. This has substantial consequences on the mechanical properties of wet granular beds, including a history-dependent rheology and lowered strength. Our findings are obtained using a model in which the Laplace pressures, bridge volumes, and contact angles are dynamical variables associated with the contact points. While accounting for contact line pinning, we track the temporal evolution of each bridge. We observe a crossover to a power-law decay of the variance of capillary pressures at late times and a saturation of the variance of bridge volumes to a finite value connected to contact line pinning. Large-scale simulations of liquid transport in the bridge network reveal that the equilibration dynamics at early times is well described by a mean-field model. The spread of final bridge volumes can be directly related to the magnitude of contact-angle hysteresis.

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