Model for the Scaling of Stresses and Fluctuations in Flows near Jamming
- 17 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 105 (8), 088303
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.105.088303
Abstract
We probe flows of soft, viscous spheres near the jamming point, which acts as a critical point for static soft spheres. Starting from energy considerations, we find nontrivial scaling of velocity fluctuations with strain rate. Combining this scaling with insights from jamming, we arrive at an analytical model that predicts four distinct regimes of flow, each characterized by rational-valued scaling exponents. Both the number of regimes and the values of the exponents depart from prior results. We validate predictions of the model with simulations.Keywords
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