We study the segregation of mixtures of particles in a split-bottom cell to isolate three possible driving mechanisms for segregation of densely sheared granular mixtures: gravity, porosity, and velocity gradients. We find that gravity alone does not drive segregation associated with particle size without a sufficiently large porosity or porosity gradient. A velocity gradient, however, appears to be capable of driving segregation associated with both particle size and material density. In all cases, the final segregation state is approached exponentially.
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