We study the fingering instability of the interface between two miscible fluids, a colloidal suspension and its own solvent. The temporal evolution of the interface in a Hele-Shaw cell is found to be governed by the competition between the nonlinear viscosity of the suspension and an off-equilibrium, effective surface tension Γe. By studying suspensions in a wide range of volume fractions, ΦC, ...

A universal characteristic of mesoscale turbulence in active suspensions is the emergence of a typical vortex length scale, distinctly different from the scale invariance of turbulent high-Reynolds number flows. Collective length-scale selection has been observed in bacterial fluids, endothelial tissue, and active colloids, yet the physical origins of this phenomenon remain elusive. Here, we sy...

Suspensions are of wide interest and form the basis for many smart fluids. For most suspensions, the viscosity decreases with increasing shear rate, that is, they shear thin. Few are reported to do the opposite, that is, shear thicken, despite the longstanding expectation that shear thickening is a generic type of suspension behaviour. Here we resolve this apparent contradiction. We demonstrate...

The rheological behavior of magnetotactic bacterial suspensions is analyzed using a continuum kinetic theory. In both unbounded and confined geometries, the response of these suspensions under simple external flows can be controlled by applying a magnetic field and hinges in a subtle way on the interplay of magnetic alignment, rotation under shear, and wall-induced accumulation under confinemen...

To investigate the effects of non-Newtonian properties solvents on particle suspension rheology (non-Newtonian property and viscosity), we analyzed flows with different solvent characteristics. We used power-law model to express solvents. The index was denoted as n sus. that [Formula: see text] distinguish between their properties. Besides, evaluate suspension, estimated its by comparing veloci...

Abstract This paper describes the operation principles of a micro-scale rheometry equipment based on technology microchannels chip and compares it with conventional macro-scale rotational rheometer. Both techniques are used for study different solutions suspensions ceramic particles saccharides, which subjected to wide variety shear rates from their preparation processing injection in plasma sp...

Three different aeration plates are used to study their effect on gas holdup and flow regime transition in fiber suspensions. The aeration plates differ by their open-area ratios (A=0.57%, 0.99%, and 2.14%), where the hole diameter remains the same while the number of holes increase. Experiments are performed using three different Rayon fiber lengths (L=3, 6, and 12mm) over a range of superfici...

The behavior of confined colloidal suspensions with attractive interparticle interactions is critical to the rational design of materials for directed assembly(1-3), drug delivery(4), improved hydrocarbon recovery(5-7), and flowable electrodes for energy storage(8). Suspensions containing fluorescent colloids and non-adsorbing polymers are appealing model systems, as the ratio of the polymer ra...