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SOFT MATTER
Volume 10, Issue 26, Pages 4615-4624Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm00348a
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- European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC [279004]
- Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), which is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
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By using fluid-kinetic simulations of confined and concentrated emulsion droplets, we investigate the nature of space non-homogeneity in soft-glassy dynamics and provide quantitative measurements of the statistical features of plastic events in the proximity of the yield-stress threshold. Above the yield stress, our results show the existence of a finite stress correlation scale, which can be mapped directly onto the cooperativity scale, recently introduced in the literature to capture non-local effects in the soft-glassy dynamics. In this regime, the emergence of a separate boundary (wall) rheology with higher fluidity than the bulk is highlighted in terms of near-wall spontaneous segregation of plastic events. Near the yield stress, where the cooperativity scale cannot be estimated with sufficient accuracy, the system shows a clear increase of the stress correlation scale, whereas plastic events exhibit intermittent clustering in time, with no preferential spatial location. A quantitative measurement of the space-time correlation associated with the motion of the interface of the droplets is key to spot the elastic rigidity of the system.
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