Localized stress fluctuations drive shear thickening in dense suspensions
| Autor: | Daniel L. Blair, Vikram Rathee, Jeffrey S. Urbach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Shearing (physics) Multidisciplinary Materials science Critical stress Spatially resolved FOS: Physical sciences Mechanics Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter 01 natural sciences 010305 fluids & plasmas Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter Physics::Fluid Dynamics Shear rate Colloid Rheology Physical Sciences 0103 physical sciences Shear stress Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) 010306 general physics |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114:8740-8745 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1703871114 |
| Popis: | The mechanical response of solid particles dispersed in a Newtonian fluid exhibits a wide range of nonlinear phenomena including a dramatic increase in the viscosity \cite{1-3} with increasing stress. If the volume fraction of the solid phase is moderately high, the suspension will undergo continuous shear thickening (CST), where the suspension viscosity increases smoothly with applied shear stress; at still higher volume fractions the suspension can display discontinuous shear thickening (DST), where the viscosity changes abruptly over several orders of magnitude upon increasing applied stress. Proposed models to explain this phenomenon are based in two distinct types of particle interactions, hydrodynamic\cite{2,4,5} and frictional\cite{6-10}. In both cases, the increase in the bulk viscosity is attributed to some form of localized clustering\cite{11,12}. However, the physical properties and dynamical behavior of these heterogeneities remains unclear. Here we show that continuous shear thickening originates from dynamic localized well defined regions of particles with a high viscosity that increases rapidly with concentration. Furthermore, we find that the spatial extent of these regions is largely determined by the distance between the shearing surfaces. Our results demonstrate that continuous shear thickening arises from increasingly frequent localized discontinuous transitions between coexisting low and high viscosity Newtonian fluid phases. Our results provide a critical physical link between the microscopic dynamical processes that determine particle interactions and bulk rheological response of shear thickened fluids. |
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