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EPL
Volume 83, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/83/30001
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- US-DOE [DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- Landesstiftung Baden-Wurttemberg
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We investigate velocity probability distribution functions (PDF) of sheared hard-sphere suspensions. As observed in our Stokes flow simulations and explained by our single-particle theory, these PDFs can show pronounced deviations from a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. The PDFs are symmetric around zero velocity and show a Gaussian core and exponential tails over more than six orders of magnitude of probability. Following the excellent agreement of our theory and simulation data, we demonstrate that the distribution functions scale with the shear rate, the particle volume concentration, as well as the fluid viscosity. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2008.
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