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SOFT MATTER
卷 9, 期 29, 页码 7174-7184出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm51258d
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- Direccion General de Investigacion of the Spanish Government [FIS2011-22603]
- DURSI [2009SGR-634]
We analyze the rheological response of a suspension of simple model swimmers subject to a steady Couette flow. We consider the squirmer model as a means to control systematically the interplay between self-propulsion and active stress generation and analyze their relative impact both on the effective viscosity of a suspension and the microstructure the squirmers develop. We show how self-propulsion introduces an intrinsic contribution to the effective viscosity of the active suspension. Accordingly, apolar squirmers show shear thickening while polar ones develop a shear thinning response to the applied shear. We show that the detailed coupling of the squirmers to the bounding walls has a strong influence on the structure of the suspension and the development of shear bands.
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