2015/01/13 by Tyler Olsen, Ken Kamrin, Olsen, Tyler +1
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions #FOS: Physical sciences #Material Dynamics and Properties #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1501.03096
arxiv created 2015/01/13 · openalex publication_date 2015/01/13 · arxiv updated 2015/01/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Significant microstructural anisotropy is known to develop during shearing flow of attractive particle suspensions. These suspensions, and their capacity to form conductive networks, play a key role in flow-battery technology, among other applications. Herein, we present and test an analytical model for the tensorial conductivity of attractive particle suspensions. The model utilizes the mean fabric of the network to characterize the structure, and the relationship to the conductivity is inspired by a lattice argument. We test the accuracy of our model against a large number of computer-generated suspension networks, based on multiple in-house generation protocols, giving rise to particle networks that emulate the physical system. The model is shown to adequately capture the tensorial conductivity, both in terms of its invariants and its mean directionality.