Nonmonotonic settling of a sphere in a cornstarch suspension

Kann von, Stefan and Snoeijer, Jacco H. and Lohse, Detlef and Meer van der, Devaraj (2011) Nonmonotonic settling of a sphere in a cornstarch suspension. Physical Review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 84 (6). 060401. ISSN 1539-3755

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Abstract:	Cornstarch suspensions exhibit remarkable behavior. Here, we present two unexpected observations for a sphere settling in such a suspension: In the bulk of the liquid the velocity of the sphere oscillates around a terminal value, without damping. Near the bottom the sphere comes to a full stop, but then accelerates again toward a second stop. This stop-go cycle is repeated several times before the object reaches the bottom. We show that common shear thickening or linear viscoelastic models cannot account for the observed phenomena, and propose a minimal jamming model to describe the behavior at the bottom
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Fluids (POF)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/78775
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.060401
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