Collaborative Research: Discontinuous Shear Thickening and Shear Jamming in Dense Suspensions: Statistical Mechanics and the Microscopic Basis for Extreme Transitions of Properties

CBET - 1605283/1605428 PI：Morris，Jeffrey F./ Chakraborty，BulbulThis合作项目包括计算和理论研究的悬浮液组成的固体颗粒在液体中的流动。该项目的重点是浓缩悬浮液，其中颗粒占混合物体积的一半以上。这些通常被称为稠密悬浮液，并且它们被发现在作为水泥、混凝土和矿物矿石浆料的应用中。 当流动条件改变时，稠密悬浮液的性质会突然改变。 在某些情况下，随着流动强度或剪切速率的增加，混合物会突然表现出流动阻力的极大增加，这种现象称为“不连续剪切增稠”（DST）。 流动甚至可以停止，这被称为“剪切堵塞”。“DST可能对涉及混合物的工业过程产生重大负面影响。 虽然DST已经被知道很多年了，但它还没有被解释。 该项目的目标是确定为什么会发生这种现象，这可以提供指导，如何设计暂停和处理操作，以减少DST的负面影响。 研究结果将用于模块中，使高中生能够可视化多粒子系统如何导致大规模行为，例如玉米淀粉悬浮液中的DST，其中小颗粒淀粉引起流动特性的巨大变化。该项目将探索最近的观察结果，即DST可以通过颗粒接触和摩擦来解释。 这项工作将探索粒子之间的力网络的结构，以及这种结构如何随着流速增加到导致性质突然变化的水平而变化。 特别是，该团队将通过模拟不同流动中的离散粒子和应用统计物理学的理论概念来探索流动性质转变是否具有相变的特征。 液体的作用将被认为是通过比较的结果与干颗粒系统的行为，其中的力网络的概念和它的关系，堵塞已被别人检查。 这项工作将探讨流动引起的性质变化的热力学相变的关系，并将建立不同的颗粒流之间的相似性和差异。 由于固液混合物通常用于工业中，并在泥浆流等地球物理环境中发现，因此该项目将显着扩展我们在重要应用中理解并最终预测这些复杂系统动态的能力。

CBET - 1605283/1605428PI: Morris, Jeffrey F./Chakraborty, BulbulThis collaborative project comprises computational and theoretical studies of the flow of suspensions consisting of solid particles in liquids. The project focuses on concentrated suspensions, where particles occupy more than half of the mixture volume. These are often called dense suspensions, and they are found in application as cement, concrete, and mineral ore slurries. Dense suspensions can change properties suddenly when flow conditions change. In some cases, as the strength of the flow, or shear rate, increases, the mixture can suddenly exhibit an extremely large increase in flow resistance, a phenomenon known as "discontinuous shear thickening" (DST). The flow can even stop, which is known as "shear jamming." DST can have major negative effects on industrial processes involving the mixtures. While DST has been known for many years, it has not been explained. The goal of this project is to determine why this phenomenon happens, which could provide guidance how to design suspensions and processing operations to diminish negative effects of DST. Results of the research will be used in modules that will enable high school students to visualize how many-particle systems result in large-scale behavior, such as DST in cornstarch suspensions, where small grains of starch cause enormous changes in flow properties.The project will explore recent observations that DST can be explained by particle contacts and friction. The work will explore the structure of networks of forces between the particles and how this structure changes as the flow rate is increased to a level causing abrupt changes in properties. In particular, the team will explore whether the flow property transition has the characteristics of a phase transition through simulations of discrete particles in different flows and applications of theoretical concepts from statistical physics. The role of the liquid will be considered by comparing results with the behavior of dry granular systems in which the force network concept and its relation to jamming have been examined by others. This work will probe the relationship of flow-induced property changes to thermodynamic phase transitions and will establish the similarities and differences between different particulate flows. Because solid-liquid mixtures are commonly used in industry and are found in geophysical settings such as mud flows, the project will significantly expand our ability to understand and ultimately predict the dynamics of these complicated systems in important applications.