Highly anisotropic vorticity aligned structures in a shear thickening attractive colloidal system.

Osuji, Chinedum O; Weitz, David A · Soft Matter · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Vorticity aligned cylindrical flocs of carbon black particles are formed in steady flow at low shear rates and, strikingly, appear as transient structures in the flow response of gels produced by the quenching of high rate shear thickening flows.