| Autor: |
Singh A; Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 10040, USA.; James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.; Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA., Ness C; School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FG, United Kingdom., Sharma AK; Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA., de Pablo JJ; Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.; Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA., Jaeger HM; James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.; Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
We study the rheology of bidisperse non-Brownian suspensions using particle-based simulation, mapping the viscosity as a function of the size ratio of the species, their relative abundance, and the overall solid content. The variation of the viscosity with applied stress exhibits shear-thickening phenomenology irrespective of composition, though the stress-dependent limiting solids fraction governing the viscosity and its divergence point are nonmonotonic in the mixing ratio. Contact force data demonstrate an asymmetric exchange in the dominant stress contribution from large-large to small-small particle contacts as the mixing ratio of the species evolves. Combining a prior model for shear thickening with one for composition-dependent jamming, we obtain a full description of the rheology of bidisperse non-Brownian suspensions capable of predicting effects such as the viscosity reduction observed upon adding small particles to a suspension of large particles. |
