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Multifractal intermittency in granular flow through bottlenecks
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We experimentally analyze the intermittent nature of granular silo flow when the discharge is controlled by an extracting belt at the bottom. We discover the existence of four different scenarios. For low extraction rates, the system is characterized by an on-off intermittency. When the extraction rate is increased the structure functions of the grains velocity increments, calculated for different lag times, reveal the emergence of multifractal intermittency. Finally, for very high extraction rates that approach the purely gravitational discharge, we observe that the dynamics become dependent on the outlet size. For large orifices the behavior is monofractal, whereas for small ones, the fluctuations of the velocity increments deviate from Gaussianity even for very large time lags.
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GELLA, D., ZURIGUEL, Iker and ORTÍN, Jordi. Multifractal intermittency in granular flow through bottlenecks. Physical Review Letters. 2019. Vol. 123, num. 21, pags. 218004. ISSN 0031-9007. [consulted: 17 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/145326