{"paper":{"title":"Understanding the Local Flow Rate Peak of a Hopper Discharging Discs through an Obstacle Using a Tetris-like Model","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.soft","authors_text":"Guo-Jie J. Gao, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Michael C. Holcomb, Shigenobu Ogata","submitted_at":"2018-07-16T14:58:36Z","abstract_excerpt":"Placing a round obstacle above the orifice of a flat hopper discharging uniform frictional discs has been experimentally and numerically shown in the literature to create a local peak in the gravity-driven hopper flow rate. Using frictionless molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we show that the local peak is unrelated to the interparticle friction, the particle dispersity, and the obstacle geometry. We then construct a probabilistic Tetris-like model, where particles update their positions according to prescribed rules rather than in response to forces, and show that Newtonian dynamics are al"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1807.05902","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}