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Lectures on Visco-Plastic Fluid Mechanics

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This chapter deals with the rheological properties of viscoplastic suspensions. In Sect. 2, we discuss the theoretical behavior of suspensions of rigid particles in linear and nonlinear media. In Sect. 3, we present appropriate model systems, experimental setups and methods. The main experimental observations are presented in Sect. 4: we present the evolution of the elastic, plastic, and flow properties with the particle volume fraction, and we discuss the emergence of a shear-dependent microstructure. Finally, shear-induced migration and its link with normal stress differences are briefly discussed in Sect. 5.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We do not consider here the case of frictional materials.

  2. 2.

    Some aspects of the linear and nonlinear behavior of polydisperse suspensions are discussed in Vu et al. (2010).

  3. 3.

    For simplicity, we will use n to denote the index of both the suspending fluid and the suspension in the sequel.

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Ovarlez, G. (2019). Rheology of Visco-Plastic Suspensions. In: Ovarlez, G., Hormozi, S. (eds) Lectures on Visco-Plastic Fluid Mechanics. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 583. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89438-6_5

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