Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-08-31
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
17 pages, 3 figures, paper submitted tp phys rev e
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.79.031201
We study the shear-induced diffusion effect and the transition to irreversibility in suspensions under oscillatory shear flow by performing an analysis of the entropy production associated to the motion of the particles. We show that the Onsager coupling between different contributions to the entropy production is responsible for the scaling of the mean square displacement on particle diameter and applied strain. We also show that the shear-induced effective diffusion coefficient depends on the volume fraction and use Lattice-Boltzmann simulations to characterize the effect through the power spectrum of particle positions for different Reynolds numbers and volume fractions. Our study gives a thermodynamic explanation of the the transition to irreversibility through a pertinent analysis of the second law of thermodynamics.
del Valle Barrios G.
Holek Santamaría I.
Rubi Miguel J.
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