Shear-flow-induced microstructural distortion near the critical point

Jan K.G. Dhont and Henk Verduin

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 235, issue 1, 87-104

Abstract: Shear-flow-induced microstructural distortion of suspensions close to the critical point is described in detail on the basis of the Smoluchowski equation, where hydrodynamic interaction is neglected. The solution of the Smoluchowski equation exhibits scaling behaviour, predicting that the combined shear rate and correlation length dependence is characterized by a single dimensionless number λ ∼ γ̇ξ4 (with γ the shear rate and ξ the correlation length of the unsheared suspension). From the scaling relations for deformation of the structure factor, a scaling form for the turbidity is derived.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00330-5

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