2017/04/02 by Noemi Barrera, Barrera, Noemi, Moshe Schwartz +1
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Materials Science · #FOS: Physical sciences #Marine and environmental studies #Material Dynamics and Properties #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1704.00307
openalex publication_date 2017/04/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider a system of monodisperse hard spheres immersed in a sheared fluid. We obtain the distortion of the structure factor of the hard spheres at low shear rates, within a Percus-Yevick like framework. The consequent distortion of the pair distribution function is shown to affect the transition of the hard sphere fluid into a jammed state, which is similar to the transition to the state of random close packing in the absence of shear.