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Flow of deformable droplets: self-pinned glasses and string-like flow
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A solar energy research paper on Flow of deformable droplets: self-pinned glasses and string-like flow.
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Original abstract
We investigate, through numerical simulations, the rheology of a dry suspension of deformable droplets under pressure-driven flow. The system exhibits two force-driven dynamical transitions. At low forcing, the suspension behaves as a yield-stress material: below a critical force, droplets remain arrested in an amorphous solid-like state. Our simulations suggest that yielding is controlled by droplet contacts and predict that the critical force strongly depends on deformability. Above yielding, the suspension does not flow steadily but rather enters an intermittent, stick-slip regime characterised by long-lived caging and non-Gaussian velocity fluctuations. This state can be interpreted as a "self-pinned'' glass, in which slowly evolving droplet overlaps generate an effective rugged energy landscape that dynamically traps droplets and produces intermittent rearrangements reminiscent of near-critical dynamics in depinning models. At larger forcing, droplets deform sufficiently to continuously exchange neighbours, progressively annealing the overlap structure and driving a dynamic transition to a string-like, flowing state. Our results identify the restructuring of overlap networks as a generic mechanism which controls flow in driven suspensions of deformable particles.
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