Normal stresses in a shear flow of magnetorheological suspensions: Viscoelastic versus Maxwell stresses

Normal stresses in a shear flow of magnetorheological suspensions: viscoelastic versus Maxwell stresses

Stick-slip instabilities in the shear flow of magnetorheological suspensions

Synopsys This work is devoted to the stick-slip instabilities that appear in the shear flow of highly concentrated suspensions of magnetic microparticles. The effect of the applied magnetic field strength was analyzed in details. With this aim, homogeneous suspensions of iron microparticles with concentration near the limit of maximum-packing fraction were prepared, and shear-flow measurements ...

From Maxwell Stresses to Nonlinear Field Equations

This paper aims to show that making use of Newton’s view on equations of motion of a physical system and of the Maxwell stress tensor we come to a natural nonlinearization of Maxwell equations in vacuum making use only of nonrelativistic terms. The new equations include all Maxwell solutions plus new ones, among which one may find time-stable and spatially finite ones with photon-like propertie...

Electrokinetic and viscoelastic properties of magnetorheological suspensions of cobalt ferrite

Magnetorheological suspensions are among the most promising colloidal systems from the point of view of their many potential technological applications. Most studies on these systems have, however, been performed using a non-polar liquid as dispersion medium. In this work we consider aqueous suspensions of synthetic, spherical cobalt ferrite particles. From electrophoretic mobility determinatio...

The role of dilation and confining stresses in shear thickening of dense suspensions

Many densely packed suspensions and colloids exhibit a behavior known as Discontinuous Shear Thickening in which the shear stress jumps dramatically and reversibly as the shear rate is increased. We performed rheometry and video microscopy measurements on a variety of suspensions to determine the mechanism for this behavior. We distinguish Discontinuous Shear Thickening from inertial effects by...