Shear thickening of cornstarch suspensions as a re-entrant jamming transition

Details Shear thickening of cornstarch suspensions as a re-entrant jamming transition Shear thickening of cornstarch suspensions as a re-entrant jamming transition

2007-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/0709.3171v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.018301

We study the rheology of cornstarch suspensions, a dense system of non-Brownian particles that exhibits shear thickening, i.e. a viscosity that increases with increasing shear rate. Using MRI velocimetry we show that the suspension has a yield stress. From classical rheology it follows that as a function of the applied stress the suspension is first solid (yield stress), then liquid and then solid again when it shear thickens. The onset shear rate for thickening is found to depend on the measurement geometry: the smaller the gap of the shear cell, the lower the shear rate at which thickening occurs. Shear thickening can then be interpreted as the consequence of the Reynolds dilatancy: the system under flow wants to dilate but instead undergoes a jamming transition because it is confined, as confirmed by measurement of the dilation of the suspension as a function of the shear rate.

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