Slow flows of yield stress fluids: complex spatio-temporal behaviour within a simple elasto-plastic model

Details Slow flows of yield stress fluids: complex spatio-temporal behaviour within a simple elasto-plastic model Slow flows of yield stress fluids: complex spatio-temporal behaviour within a simple elasto-plastic model

2004-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409452v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.71.010501

A minimal athermal model for the flow of dense disordered materials is proposed, based on two generic ingredients: local plastic events occuring above a microscopic yield stress, and the non-local elastic release of the stress these events induce in the material. A complex spatio-temporal rheological behaviour results, with features in line with recent experimental observations. At low shear rates, macroscopic flow actually originates from collective correlated bursts of plastic events, taking place in dynamically generated fragile zones. The related correlation length diverges algebraically at small shear rates. In confined geometries bursts occur preferentially close to the walls yielding an intermittent form of flow localization.

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