Constitutive flow law for hydrogel granular rafts near the brittle-ductile transition

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Hauptverfasser: Sasaki, Yuto, Katsuragi, Hiroaki
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author Sasaki, Yuto
Katsuragi, Hiroaki
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Katsuragi, Hiroaki
contents Spatially varying flow laws have been identified in dry granular flow, yet their applicability to unjammed suspensions remains unclear. This study demonstrates that the quasistatic suspension flow combines dry granular rheology with nonlocal effects in the shear band and damped viscous flow in the outer creep region. Through rotary shear experiments on a hydrogel granular raft, we observe that the flow decays from the interface in the quasistatic regime, where the particles remain mobile even below the yield stress. These findings suggest the universal flow law across the transition between jammed/brittle granular behavior and unjammed/ductile viscous flow.
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spellingShingle Constitutive flow law for hydrogel granular rafts near the brittle-ductile transition
Sasaki, Yuto
Katsuragi, Hiroaki
Soft Condensed Matter
Fluid Dynamics
Spatially varying flow laws have been identified in dry granular flow, yet their applicability to unjammed suspensions remains unclear. This study demonstrates that the quasistatic suspension flow combines dry granular rheology with nonlocal effects in the shear band and damped viscous flow in the outer creep region. Through rotary shear experiments on a hydrogel granular raft, we observe that the flow decays from the interface in the quasistatic regime, where the particles remain mobile even below the yield stress. These findings suggest the universal flow law across the transition between jammed/brittle granular behavior and unjammed/ductile viscous flow.
title Constitutive flow law for hydrogel granular rafts near the brittle-ductile transition
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08217