Issue |
EPL
Volume 94, Number 4, May 2011
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Article Number | 44001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/94/44001 | |
Published online | 03 May 2011 |
New confinement effects on the viscosity of suspensions
CNRS - Université de Grenoble I, UMR5588, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPhy) 38041 Grenoble, France, EU
a
claude.verdier@ujf-grenoble.fr
Received:
17
February
2011
Accepted:
1
April
2011
We present rheological experiments of confined suspensions at moderate concentrations. The analysis is carried out in the framework of a previous study on particle suspensions (Davit Y. and Peyla P., EPL, 83 (2008) 64001) where simulations revealed the presence of unusual effects attributed to confinement, i.e. when the gap size (h) becomes closer to the particle size (d). Deviations from the usual viscosity trends were found. The present work investigates these features further and confirms the important role of the confinement. Extensions are made from the classical approach to the case of confined suspensions where the importance of the reduced gap is taken into account.
PACS: 47.50.Ef – Measurements / 47.57.E- – Suspensions / 47.57.Qk – Rheological aspects
© EPLA, 2011
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