Rheology of Suspensions of Non-Brownian Soft Spheres across the Jamming and Viscous-to-Inertial Transitions

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Contributors

  • Franco Tapia - , Aix-Marseille Université (Author)
  • Chong-Wei Hong - (Author)
  • Pascale Aussillous - (Author)
  • Élisabeth Guazzelli - (Author)

Abstract

The rheology of suspensions of non-Brownian soft spheres is studied across jamming but also across the viscous and inertial regimes using a custom pressure- and volume-imposed rheometer. The study shows that the granular rheology found for suspensions of hard spheres can be extended to a soft granular rheology (SGranR) by renormalizing the critical volume fraction and friction coefficient to pressure-dependent values and using the addition of the viscous and inertial stress scales. This SGranR encompasses rheological behaviors on both sides of the jamming transition, resulting in an approximate collapse of the rheological data into two branches when scaled with the distance to jamming, as observed for soft colloids. This research suggests that suspensions of soft particles across flow regimes can be described by a unified SGranR framework around the jamming transition.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number088201
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume133
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 20 Aug 2024
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85202447975

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