Superheating and melting phenomena of a vibrated granular layer of cubic particles

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Autori principali: López-González, Francisco, Rodríguez-Liñán, Gustavo M., Donado, Fernando, Vázquez, Felipe Pacheco, Elizondo-Aguilera, Luis Fernando
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author López-González, Francisco
Rodríguez-Liñán, Gustavo M.
Donado, Fernando
Vázquez, Felipe Pacheco
Elizondo-Aguilera, Luis Fernando
author_facet López-González, Francisco
Rodríguez-Liñán, Gustavo M.
Donado, Fernando
Vázquez, Felipe Pacheco
Elizondo-Aguilera, Luis Fernando
contents We report the combined results of experiments and molecular dynamics simulations conducted to investigate superheating phenomena in vertically vibrated granular matter. Specifically, we consider a system of cubic particles densely packed in a square-lattice array and subjected to different shaking strengths, denoted by Gamma, approaching a critical value Gamma_c. Below Gamma_c, the superheated crystalline array remains indefinitely stable. Above Gamma_c, it transitions progressively into a granular liquid-like state over a Gamma-dependent timescale tau. We show that while an increase in frictional contacts significantly prolongs the lifetime of the superheated crystalline state, it does not play a major role in the scaling laws governing how that lifetime depends on shaking strength. Our findings also show that the transition from the superheated solid to the liquid state in the vibrated system is well described by a Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami (KJMA) equation, which is commonly used to model phase transformations in thermal systems.
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spellingShingle Superheating and melting phenomena of a vibrated granular layer of cubic particles
López-González, Francisco
Rodríguez-Liñán, Gustavo M.
Donado, Fernando
Vázquez, Felipe Pacheco
Elizondo-Aguilera, Luis Fernando
Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
We report the combined results of experiments and molecular dynamics simulations conducted to investigate superheating phenomena in vertically vibrated granular matter. Specifically, we consider a system of cubic particles densely packed in a square-lattice array and subjected to different shaking strengths, denoted by Gamma, approaching a critical value Gamma_c. Below Gamma_c, the superheated crystalline array remains indefinitely stable. Above Gamma_c, it transitions progressively into a granular liquid-like state over a Gamma-dependent timescale tau. We show that while an increase in frictional contacts significantly prolongs the lifetime of the superheated crystalline state, it does not play a major role in the scaling laws governing how that lifetime depends on shaking strength. Our findings also show that the transition from the superheated solid to the liquid state in the vibrated system is well described by a Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami (KJMA) equation, which is commonly used to model phase transformations in thermal systems.
title Superheating and melting phenomena of a vibrated granular layer of cubic particles
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07305