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The mass flow rate, \( \dot{m} \), associated with the outflow of dry, cohesionless granular material through orifices located in vertical walls of silos was analyzed experimentally in order to reveal the dependence of this quantity on D and w, i.e., the diameter of the orifice and the wall’s thickness, respectively. A series of experiments enable us to give a general correlation, which has the form \( \dot{m} = \dot{m}_{0} - wA, \) where A is a constant and \( \dot{m}_{0} \) is the mass flow rate to the minimum allowable wall thickness.
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Medina, A., Gutiérrez-Paredes, G.J., Chowdary, S., Kumar, A., Kesava Rao, K. (2013). On the Mass Flow Rate of Granular Material in Silos with Lateral Exit Holes. In: Klapp, J., Medina, A., Cros, A., Vargas, C. (eds) Fluid Dynamics in Physics, Engineering and Environmental Applications. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27723-8_21
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