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How vorticity and agglomeration control shear strength in soft cohesive granular flows

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Deformable granular flows present complex kinematics. These materials can have various flow regimes: plastic, agglomerated, rigid-like granular flow, etc. In this paper, a multibody meshfree model is used to investigate the consequences of cohesion, stiffness, and viscosity of the particles on their collective sheared flows in tribological contacts. An approach derived from fluid mechanics postprocessing tools, based on vortex detection, is employed to understand the links between these parameters and the emerging friction coefficient of the sheared interface. These results pave the way to complete kinematic studies of third body simulations in tribological contacts.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge Safran Aircraft Engines and the French National Research and Technology Agency (ANRT) for financially supporting this research project. The authors acknowledge that this study contains original material. Its publication has been approved tacitly by the responsible authorities at the institutes where the work has been carried out.

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    Olivier Bouillanne, Nathalie Serres, Guillaume Chassaing & Karim Demmou

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Bouillanne, O., Mollon, G., Saulot, A. et al. How vorticity and agglomeration control shear strength in soft cohesive granular flows. Granular Matter 24, 55 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-022-01216-8

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