2019/07/03 by d'Ambrosio, Enzo, Blanc, Frédéric, Lemaire, Elisabeth
#FOS: Physical sciences #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.01793
We perform local measurements of both the shear rate and the particle fraction to study viscous resuspension in non-Brownian suspensions. A suspension of PMMA spherical particles dispersed in a lighter Newtonian fluid (Triton X100) is sheared in a vertical Couette cell. The vertical profiles of the particle volume fraction are measured for Shields numbers ranging from 10 --3 to 1, and the variation in the particle normal stress in the vorticity direction of the particle fraction is deduced.