Shear thickening in granular suspensions: Interparticle friction and dynamically correlated clusters
Shear thickening in granular suspensions: Interparticle friction and dynamically correlated clusters
We consider the shear rheology of concentrated suspensions of non-Brownian frictional particles. The key result of our study is the emergence of a pronounced shear-thickening regime, where frictionless particles would normally undergo shear thinning. We can clarify that shear thickening in our simulations is due to enhanced energy dissipation via …