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Shear Viscosity of Clay-like Colloids in Computer Simulations and Experiments

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arxiv cond-mat/0601413 v3 pith:TT6GRG6Q submitted 2006-01-18 cond-mat.soft

Shear Viscosity of Clay-like Colloids in Computer Simulations and Experiments

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Dense suspensions of small strongly interacting particles are complex systems, which are rarely understood on the microscopic level. We investigate properties of dense suspensions and sediments of small spherical Al_2O_3 particles in a shear cell by means of a combined Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Stochastic Rotation Dynamics (SRD) simulation. We study structuring effects and the dependence of the suspension's viscosity on the shear rate and shear thinning for systems of varying salt concentration and pH value. To show the agreement of our results to experimental data, the relation between bulk pH value and surface charge of spherical colloidal particles is modeled by Debye-Hueckel theory in conjunction with a 2pK charge regulation model.

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