Universal scaling of shear thickening suspensions under acoustic perturbation
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| author | Barth, Anna R. Singh, Navneet Thornton, Stephen J. Kakhandiki, Pranav Ong, Edward Y. X. Ramaswamy, Meera Shetty, Abhishek M. Chakraborty, Bulbul Sethna, James P. Cohen, Itai |
| author_facet | Barth, Anna R. Singh, Navneet Thornton, Stephen J. Kakhandiki, Pranav Ong, Edward Y. X. Ramaswamy, Meera Shetty, Abhishek M. Chakraborty, Bulbul Sethna, James P. Cohen, Itai |
| contents | Tuning shear thickening behavior is a longstanding problem in the field of dense suspensions. Acoustic perturbations offer a convenient way to control shear thickening in real time, opening the door to a new class of smart materials. However, complete control over shear thickening requires a quantitative description for how suspension viscosity varies under acoustic perturbation. Here, we achieve this goal by experimentally probing suspensions with acoustic perturbations and incorporating their effect on the suspension viscosity into a universal scaling framework where the viscosity is described by a scaling function, which captures a crossover from the frictionless jamming critical point to a frictional shear jamming critical point. Our analysis reveals that the effect of acoustic perturbations may be explained by the introduction of an effective interparticle repulsion whose magnitude is roughly equal to the acoustic energy density. Furthermore, we demonstrate how this scaling framework may be leveraged to produce explicit predictions for the viscosity of a dense suspension under acoustic perturbation. Our results demonstrate the utility of the scaling framework for experimentally manipulating shear thickening systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Universal scaling of shear thickening suspensions under acoustic perturbation Barth, Anna R. Singh, Navneet Thornton, Stephen J. Kakhandiki, Pranav Ong, Edward Y. X. Ramaswamy, Meera Shetty, Abhishek M. Chakraborty, Bulbul Sethna, James P. Cohen, Itai Soft Condensed Matter Tuning shear thickening behavior is a longstanding problem in the field of dense suspensions. Acoustic perturbations offer a convenient way to control shear thickening in real time, opening the door to a new class of smart materials. However, complete control over shear thickening requires a quantitative description for how suspension viscosity varies under acoustic perturbation. Here, we achieve this goal by experimentally probing suspensions with acoustic perturbations and incorporating their effect on the suspension viscosity into a universal scaling framework where the viscosity is described by a scaling function, which captures a crossover from the frictionless jamming critical point to a frictional shear jamming critical point. Our analysis reveals that the effect of acoustic perturbations may be explained by the introduction of an effective interparticle repulsion whose magnitude is roughly equal to the acoustic energy density. Furthermore, we demonstrate how this scaling framework may be leveraged to produce explicit predictions for the viscosity of a dense suspension under acoustic perturbation. Our results demonstrate the utility of the scaling framework for experimentally manipulating shear thickening systems. |
| title | Universal scaling of shear thickening suspensions under acoustic perturbation |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11820 |