Power fluctuations in sheared amorphous materials: A minimal model
| Autor: | Timothy Ekeh, Étienne Fodor, Suzanne M. Fielding, Michael E. Cates |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Physical Review E, 2022, Vol.105(5), pp.L052601 [Peer Reviewed Journal] |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2106.12962 |
| Popis: | The importance of mesoscale fluctuations in flowing amorphous materials is widely accepted, without a clear understanding of their role. We propose a mean-field elastoplastic model that admits both stress and strain-rate fluctuations, and investigate the character of its power distribution under steady shear flow. The model predicts the suppression of negative power fluctuations near the liquid-solid transition; the existence of a fluctuation relation in limiting regimes but its replacement in general by stretched-exponential power-distribution tails; and a crossover between two distinct mechanisms for negative power fluctuations in the liquid and the yielding solid phases. We connect these predictions with recent results from particle-based, numerical micro-rheological experiments. Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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