Divergence in the low shear viscosity for Brownian hard-sphere dispersions: At random close packing or the glass transition?

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1555-1567

  Russel, William B ^a,b,c   Wagner, Norman J ^b,c   Mewis, Jan ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Divergence; Glass transition; Hard spheres; Jamming; Low shear viscosity; Mode coupling

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; HARD SPHERES; LOW-SHEAR VISCOSITY; MODE COUPLING; MODE COUPLING THEORY; RANDOM CLOSE PACKINGS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELING; VOLUME FRACTION DEPENDENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; JAMMING; SPHERES;

SHEAR VISCOSITY;

EID: 84888594605     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.4820515     Document Type: Article

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59. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.4820515 E-JORHD2-57-004306 for the SI that provides a plot of Figure 6 with additional data sets.