The rheology of concentrated suspensions of arbitrarily-shaped particles

Details The rheology of concentrated suspensions of arbitrarily-shaped particles The rheology of concentrated suspensions of arbitrarily-shaped particles

2010-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/1005.5707v1

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 346 (2010) 118-126

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

28 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

We propose an improved effective-medium theory to obtain the concentration dependence of the viscosity of particle suspensions at arbitrary volume fractions. Our methodology can be applied, in principle, to any particle shape as long as the intrinsic viscosity is known in the dilute limit and the particles are not too elongated. The procedure allows to construct a continuum-medium model in which correlations between the particles are introduced through an effective volume fraction. We have tested the procedure using spheres, ellipsoids, cylinders, dumbells, and other complex shapes. In the case of hard spherical particles, our expression improves considerably previous models like the widely used Krieger-Dougherty relation. The final expressions obtained for the viscosity scale with the effective volume fraction and show remarkable agreement with experiments and numerical simulations at a large variety of situations.

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