Local determination of the constitutive law of a dense suspension of non-colloidal particles through MRI

Details Local determination of the constitutive law of a dense suspension of non-colloidal particles through MRI Local determination of the constitutive law of a dense suspension of non-colloidal particles through MRI

2005-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509336v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Submitted to the Journal of Rheology

Scientific paper

10.1122/1.2188528

We investigate the flowing behavior of dense suspensions of non-colloidal particles, by coupling macroscopic rheometric experiments and local velocity and concentration measurements through MRI techniques. We find that the flow is localized at low velocities, and that the material is inhomogeneous; the local laws inferred from macroscopic rheometric observations must then be reinterpreted in the light of these local observations. We show that the short time response to a velocity step allows to characterize dense suspensions locally: they have a purely viscous behavior, without any observable influence of friction. In the jammed zone, there may be a contact network, whereas in the sheared zone there are only hydrodynamic interactions: localization consists in a change in configuration at the grain scale. From the concentration and velocity profiles, we have provided for the first time local measurements of the concentration dependence of viscosity; we find a Krieger-Dougherty law $\eta(\phi)=\eta_0(1-\phi/0.605)^{-2}$. Shear induced migration is almost instantaneous and seems inconsistent with most observations: it would imply that the diffusion coefficients strongly depend on the concentration. We finally propose a simple constitutive law for dense suspensions, based on a purely viscous behavior, that accounts for all the macroscopic and local observations.

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