Flowing resistance and dilatancy of dense suspensions: lubrication and repulsion

Flowing resistance and dilatancy of dense suspensions: lubrication and repulsion

Shear thickening of dense suspensions due to energy dissipation in lubrication layers between particles.

This paper deals with a theoretical study of the shear thickening effects in concentrated suspensions of non-Brownian particles. Our analysis shows that an increase of the shear rate of the suspension flow leads to a decrease of the mean thickness of the gaps between the nearest particles in dense suspensions. In turn, this leads to the growth of energy dissipation in these gaps, which means an...

Dynamics of polymers in flowing colloidal suspensions.

Using hydrodynamic simulations we examine the behavior of single polymers in a confined colloidal suspension under flow. We study the conformations of both, collapsed and noncollapsed polymers. Our results show that the presence of the colloids has a pronounced effect on the unfolding and refolding cycles of collapsed polymers, but does not have a large effect for noncollapsed polymers. Further...

Irreversibility and chaos: role of lubrication interactions in sheared suspensions.

We investigate non-Brownian particles suspended in a periodic shear-flow using simulations. Following Metzger and Butler [Phys. Rev. E 82, 051406 (2010)], we show that the chaotic dynamics arising from lubrication interactions are too weak to generate an observable particle dispersion. The irreversibility observed in periodic flow is dominated by contact interactions. Nonetheless, we show that ...

Dense Suspensions: Force Response and Jamming Stefan von Kann Dense suspensions: Force response and jamming