Mean-field model of layering instability in shearing suspensions
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Mean-field model of layering instability in shearing suspensions.
Concentrated suspensions may shear thin when the suspended particles form planar sheets that slide over one another with less friction than if the particles are randomly distributed. In a naive model the suspension is described by a mean effective viscosity and particles that collide with each other redistribute the mean density in the shearing direction. This leads to a diffusion equation for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.021003