Stability of a Liquid Jet Impinging on Confined Saturated Sand

Jérémy Vessaire (1) , Germán Varas (1) , Sylvain Joubaud (1) , Romain Volk (1) , Mickaël Bourgoin (1) , Valérie Vidal (1)

1 Phys-ENS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon

This work focuses on the dynamics of a liquid jet impacting the surface of a confined, immersed granular bed. Although previous works have considered the erosion process and surface morphology, less attention has been given to the jet hydrodynamics. Based on laboratory experiments, we show that when the liquid jet forms a crater, two situations arise. In the case of weak/no erosion or open craters, the jet is stationary. For vertical or overhanging crater walls, the jet displays a wide range of behaviors, from quasi-periodic oscillations to symmetry breaking and exploration of different states in time. An analysis of the different system states leads to the emergence of a bifurcation diagram depending on a dimensionless parameter, J, comparing the jet impact force to the force necessary to eject a grain. The frequency of the jet oscillations depends on the inertial velocity, the jet dispersion and the ratio between the injector cross-section and the confinement length.

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Jérémy Vessaire, Germán Varas, Sylvain Joubaud, Romain Volk, Mickaël Bourgoin, et al.. Stability of a Liquid Jet Impinging on Confined Saturated Sand. Physical Review Letters, 2020, 124 (22), pp.224502. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.224502⟩. ⟨hal-02929125⟩