Jamming in hard sphere suspensions under shear
Statistical Mechanics
2017-04-04 v1
Abstract
We consider a system of monodisperse hard spheres immersed in a sheared fluid. We obtain the distortion of the structure factor of the hard spheres at low shear rates, within a Percus-Yevick like framework. The consequent distortion of the pair distribution function is shown to affect the transition of the hard sphere fluid into a jammed state, which is similar to the transition to the state of random close packing in the absence of shear.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.00307,
title = {Jamming in hard sphere suspensions under shear},
author = {Noemi Barrera and Moshe Schwartz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00307},
year = {2017}
}