Dynamic Vorticity Banding in Discontinuously Shear Thickening Suspensions.


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Article
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Authors
Chacko, RN 
Mari, R 
Cates, ME 
Fielding, SM 
Abstract

It has recently been argued that steady-state vorticity bands cannot arise in shear thickening suspensions because the normal stress imbalance across the interface between the bands will set up particle migrations. In this Letter, we develop a simple continuum model that couples shear thickening to particle migration. We show by linear stability analysis that homogeneous flow is unstable towards vorticity banding, as expected, in the regime of negative constitutive slope. In full nonlinear computations, we show, however, that the resulting vorticity bands are unsteady, with spatiotemporal patterns governed by stress-concentration coupling. We furthermore show that these dynamical bands also arise in direct particle simulations, in good agreement with the continuum model.

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0914 Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy
Journal Title
Phys Rev Lett
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Journal ISSN
0031-9007
1079-7114
Volume Title
121
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Sponsorship
European Research Council (740269)
Royal Society (RP170002)