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Rheology of dense granular suspensions across flow regimes

Élisabeth Guazzelli*

  • *Contact author: elisabeth.guazzelli@u-paris.fr
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 090501 – Published 23 September, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.090501

Abstract

Dense granular suspensions, which consist of concentrated mixtures of non-Brownian particles suspended in a liquid, are ubiquitous in many natural phenomena (e.g., landslides, debris flows, and sediment transport) and industrial processes (e.g., concrete and pastes). Despite their prevalence, the rheology of these suspensions is not fully understood, and the establishment of a unified theoretical framework for different flow regimes remains a challenge. The present work reviews rheological measurements of granular suspensions in the dense regime, performed at imposed volume fractions and at imposed values of particle normal stress. It proposes a unified granular rheology over the viscous to inertial flow regime based on the superposition of inertial and viscous stress scales. This granular rheology, found for suspensions of hard spheres, can be extended to a soft granular rheology for soft particles. This soft granular rheology results in the approximate collapse of the rheological data into two branches when scaled with the distance to jamming, in a manner analogous to that found for viscous soft colloids, but now extended into the inertial regime.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 090501– Published 23 September, 2024
  • Received 29 May 2024
  • Accepted 28 August 2024
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