Dataset of velocities of dry granular flows in a partially obstructed tilted chute
Authors/Creators
- 1. Civil Engineering Research Innovation and Sustainability (CERIS), University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico
- 2. National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC)
- 3. Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Description
The dataset presented here corresponds to data collected in an experimental campaign on dry granular flows, in which one experiment was repeated 31 times.
The experimental campaign was performed in a 1.5 m length facility sloping at 20 degrees, where a volume of granular material was released from an upstream gate and trapped through a vertical obstruction in the downstream area of the channel, simulating slit dam conditions.
The experiments carried out presented the following characteristics: a) uni-sized polystyrene particles (d=1.8mm); b) 3 litres volume of particles and d) the obstruction used had a double distance from the chute lateral walls of twice the diameter of the particles. Images from the experiments were collected by means of one high-speed camera located at the downstream part of the channel with a target frame rate of 300 frames per second and an exposure time of 200µs.
The collected data was processed and filtered by means of Matlab algorithms aiming the assembly of a along-chute (u) and wall-normal (w) velocity ensemble database for the total time evaluated of 437 frames.