Shear thickening in concentrated suspensions: Phenomenology, mechanisms and relations to jamming

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Brown, Eric ^a   Jaeger, Heinrich M ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

jamming; non Newtonian; shear thickening; suspensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897473396     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/77/4/046602     Document Type: Review

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