Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-01-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
18 pages LaTeX, 1 postscript figure
Scientific paper
10.1007/BF02181269
The asymptotic frequency $\omega$, dependence of the dynamic viscosity of neutral hard sphere colloidal suspensions is shown to be of the form $\eta_0 A(\phi) (\omega \tau_P)^{-1/2}$, where $A(\phi)$ has been determined as a function of the volume fraction $\phi$, for all concentrations in the fluid range, $\eta_0$ is the solvent viscosity and $\tau_P$ the P\'{e}clet time. For a soft potential it is shown that, to leading order steepness, the asymptotic behavior is the same as that for the hard sphere potential and a condition for the cross-over behavior to $1/\omega \tau_P$ is given. Our result for the hard sphere potential generalizes a result of Cichocki and Felderhof obtained at low concentrations and agrees well with the experiments of van der Werff et al, if the usual Stokes-Einstein diffusion coefficient $D_0$ in the Smoluchowski operator is consistently replaced by the short-time self diffusion coefficient $D_s(\phi)$ for non-dilute colloidal suspensions.
Cohen Ezechiel G. D.
de Schepper I. M.
Feigenbaum Mitchell J.
Verberg Rolf
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