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Results for "Probability Distributions on a Circle"

Author: Kang, Chao Departments: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Modelling Entrainment in Debris Flow Analysis for Dry Granular Material

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    Fall 2016

    Kang, Chao

    well with that from the numerical experiments. In order to use the new entrainment model into debris flow runout calculation, the new entrainment model has been incorporated in a runout model based on an energy approach. Entrainment calculation governed by a second order partial differential equation

    failure mechanism. A new analytical model is proposed to calculate entrainment in debris flow analysis by considering both rolling and shearing motion. Newton’s Law of Motion is used to calculate accelerations, velocities, and displacements of granular particles. To study the entrainment process inside

    granular flow and to verify the new entrainment model, numerical experiments have been carried out using the Discrete Element Method (DEM). Velocities, including translational velocity, rotational velocity and average velocity, total volume, shear stresses are monitored using measurement circles in the

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