TY - JOUR
T1 - Unified theoretical and experimental view on transient shear banding
AU - Benzi, Roberto
AU - Divoux, Thibaut
AU - Barentin, Catherine
AU - Manneville, Sébastien
AU - Sbragaglia, Mauro
AU - Toschi, Federico
PY - 2019/12/9
Y1 - 2019/12/9
N2 - Dense emulsions, colloidal gels, microgels, and foams all display a solidlike behavior at rest characterized by a yield stress, above which the material flows like a liquid. Such a fluidization transition often consists of long-lasting transient flows that involve shear-banded velocity profiles. The characteristic time for full fluidization τf has been reported to decay as a power law of the shear rate γ and of the shear stress σ with respective exponents α and β. Strikingly, the ratio of these exponents was empirically observed to coincide with the exponent of the Herschel-Bulkley law that describes the steady-state flow behavior of these complex fluids. Here we introduce a continuum model, based on the minimization of a "free energy," that captures quantitatively all the salient features associated with such transient shear banding. More generally, our results provide a unified theoretical framework for describing the yielding transition and the steady-state flow properties of yield stress fluids.
AB - Dense emulsions, colloidal gels, microgels, and foams all display a solidlike behavior at rest characterized by a yield stress, above which the material flows like a liquid. Such a fluidization transition often consists of long-lasting transient flows that involve shear-banded velocity profiles. The characteristic time for full fluidization τf has been reported to decay as a power law of the shear rate γ and of the shear stress σ with respective exponents α and β. Strikingly, the ratio of these exponents was empirically observed to coincide with the exponent of the Herschel-Bulkley law that describes the steady-state flow behavior of these complex fluids. Here we introduce a continuum model, based on the minimization of a "free energy," that captures quantitatively all the salient features associated with such transient shear banding. More generally, our results provide a unified theoretical framework for describing the yielding transition and the steady-state flow properties of yield stress fluids.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.248001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.248001
M3 - Article
C2 - 31922825
VL - 123
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 24
M1 - 248001
ER -