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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 109, Issue 13, Pages 4798-4803Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120215109
Keywords
granular flows; jamming; rheology; viscoelasticity
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- Sloan Fellowship
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1105387]
- Petroleum Research Fund [52031-DNI9]
- MRSEC of the National Science Foundation [DMR-0820341]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1105387] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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While the rheology of non-Brownian suspensions in the dilute regime is well understood, their behavior in the dense limit remains mystifying. As the packing fraction of particles increases, particle motion becomes more collective, leading to a growing length scale and scaling properties in the rheology as the material approaches the jamming transition. There is no accepted microscopic description of this phenomenon. However, in recent years it has been understood that the elasticity of simple amorphous solids is governed by a critical point, the unjamming transition where the pressure vanishes, and where elastic properties display scaling and a diverging length scale. The correspondence between these two transitions is at present unclear. Here we show that for a simple model of dense flow, which we argue captures the essential physics near the jamming threshold, a formal analogy can be made between the rheology of the flow and the elasticity of simple networks. This analogy leads to a new conceptual framework to relate microscopic structure to rheology. It enables us to define and compute numerically normal modes and a density of states. We find striking similarities between the density of states in flow, and that of amorphous solids near unjamming: both display a plateau above some frequency scale omega* similar to vertical bar z(c) - z vertical bar, where z is the coordination of the network of particle in contact, z(c) = 2D where D is the spatial dimension. However, a spectacular difference appears: the density of states in flow displays a single mode at another frequency scale omega(min) << omega* governing the divergence of the viscosity.
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