Issue 37, 2024

Thermodynamics description of startup flow of soft particles glasses

Abstract

Particle dynamics simulations are used to study the startup flow of jammed soft particle suspensions in shear flow from a thermodynamic perspective. This thermodynamic framework is established using the concept of the two-body excess entropy extracted from the transient pair distribution function and elastic energy of the suspension as a function of strain at different shear rates and suspension volume fractions. Although the evolution of the elastic energy in these soft particle glasses closely mimics the stress–strain behavior at different shear rates and volume fractions, there are several differences corresponding to their overshoots in terms of the broadness and location of the peaks. The transient excess entropy shows an anisotropic behavior due to the anisotropic distribution of contacts at high shear rates. The excess entropy at high shear rates increases as a function of the strain and attains a steady state. On the other hand, it is nearly constant and isotropic in the quasi-static regime, where the stress response is close to the dynamic yield stress. Using the transient elastic energy and excess entropy, a transient temperature is defined to establish a relationship between thermodynamics and the static yield stress data. This transient temperature increases with the strain and then diverges at strains close to the static yield point at high shear rates.

Graphical abstract: Thermodynamics description of startup flow of soft particles glasses

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Apr 2024
Accepted
03 Sep 2024
First published
03 Sep 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Soft Matter, 2024,20, 7387-7396

Thermodynamics description of startup flow of soft particles glasses

N. Sadeghi, H. Pable and F. Khabaz, Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 7387 DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00514G

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