Inhomogeneous shear flows in soft jammed materials with tunable attractive forces Auteur(s): Chaudhuri Pinaki, Berthier L., Bocquet Lydéric (Article) Publié: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, And Soft Matter Physics, vol. 85 p.021503 (2012) Texte intégral en Openaccess : Ref HAL: hal-00685186_v1 PMID 22463215 Ref Arxiv: 1111.5957 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.021503 WoS: 000300572000009 Ref. & Cit.: NASA ADS Exporter : BibTex | endNote 53 Citations Résumé: We perform molecular dynamics simulations to characterize the occurrence of inhomogeneous shear flows in soft jammed materials. We use rough walls to impose a simple shear flow and study the athermal motion of jammed assemblies of soft particles, both for purely repulsive interactions and in the presence of an additional short-range attraction of varying strength. In steady state, pronounced flow inhomogeneities emerge for all systems when the shear rate becomes small. Deviations from linear flow are stronger in magnitude and become very long-lived when the strength of the attraction increases, but differ from permanent shear-bands. Flow inhomogeneities occur in a stress window bounded by the dynamic and static yield stress values. Attractive forces enhance the flow heterogeneities because they accelerate stress relaxation, thus effectively moving the system closer to the yield stress regime where inhomogeneities are most pronounced. The present scenario for understanding the effect of particle adhesion on shear localization, which is based on detailed molecular dynamics simulations with realistic particle interactions, differs qualitatively from previous qualitative explanations and ad-hoc theoretical modelling. Commentaires: 12 pages, 12 figures Journal: Phys. Rev. E 85, 021503 (2012) |