Unifying Suspension and Granular Rheology

作者:Boyer Francois*; Guazzelli Elisabeth; Pouliquen Olivier
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2011, 107(18): 188301.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.188301

摘要

Using an original pressure-imposed shear cell, we study the rheology of dense suspensions. We show that they exhibit a viscoplastic behavior similarly to granular media successfully described by a frictional rheology and fully characterized by the evolution of the friction coefficient mu and the volume fraction phi with a dimensionless viscous number I(v). Dense suspension and granular media are thus unified under a common framework. These results are shown to be compatible with classical empirical models of suspension rheology and provide a clear determination of constitutive laws close to the jamming transition.

  • 出版日期2011-10-24