ORCID
Joseph Paulsen: 0000-0001-6048-456X
Document Type
Article
Date
2018
Keywords
amplitude, equipment, homogeneity, microstructure, particle settling, sedimentation, shear strain, suspended sediment
Language
English
Funder(s)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, Syracuse University
Acknowledgements
We thank Nathan Keim for enlightening discussions, and we are particularly grateful to Laurent Corté. J.M.S. acknowledges NSF-DMR-CMMT-1507938 for financial support. J.W. and J.D.P. gratefully acknowledge the Donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for partial support of this research. This research was supported in part through computational resources provided by Syracuse University, including assistance from Larne Pekowsky under NSF award ACI-1541396.
Official Citation
Hyperuniformity with no fine tuning in sheared sedimenting suspensions. J Wang, JM Schwarz, & JD Paulsen, Nature Communications 9, 2836 (2018).
Disciplines
Chemistry | Physics
Description/Abstract
Particle suspensions, present in many natural and industrial settings, typically contain aggregates or other microstructures that can complicate macroscopic flow behaviors and damage processing equipment. Recent work found that applying uniform periodic shear near a critical transition can reduce fluctuations in the particle concentration across all length scales, leading to a hyperuniform state. However, this strategy for homogenization requires fine tuning of the strain amplitude. Here we show that in a model of sedimenting particles under periodic shear, there is a well-defined regime at low sedimentation speed where hyperuniform scaling automatically occurs. Our simulations and theoretical arguments show that the homogenization extends up to a finite length scale that diverges as the sedimentation speed approaches zero.
ISSN
20411723
Recommended Citation
Hyperuniformity with no fine tuning in sheared sedimenting suspensions. J Wang, JM Schwarz, & JD Paulsen, Nature Communications 9, 2836 (2018).
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