Martys, N.
, George, W.
, Lootens, D.
and Hebraud, P.
(2009),
Contact and Stress Anisotropies in Start Up Flows of Collodial Suspensions, Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics) (Accessed May 12, 2026)
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Contact and Stress Anisotropies in Start Up Flows of Collodial Suspensions
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, , Didier Lootens, Pascal Hebraud
Abstract
Spatio-temporal correlations in start-up flows of attractive colloids are explored by numerical simulations. The suspension is first allowed to flocculate during a time tw, then the stress necessary to induce its flow is computed. Whereas at low volume fractions, the stress is a universal function of the deformation, at high volume fractions, scaling behavior is no longer observed and an excess of stress becomes necessary at low shear. The onset of flow is dominated by the creation of contacts between the particles at low shear rates, and by their disruption at high shear rates. Under flow, the contacts between colloids become strongly anisotropic. The excess of stress occurs when the contacts are oriented in the compression gradient of the shear flow.Citation
Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics)
Volume
50
Issue
3
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
Suspensions, colloids, dissipative particle dynamics, yield stress, rheology
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Created September 11, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017