Loughborough University
Browse
Alam_2018_J._Phys.%3A_Conf._Ser._1017_012003.pdf (455.12 kB)

The coherent shear wave in suspensions

Download (455.12 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2018-01-04, 11:34 authored by Mahbub Alam, Francine Luppe, Valerie PinfieldValerie Pinfield, Pierre Marechal
We consider a disordered suspension of spherical silica particles in water. For a particle size of a few hundred nanometres and concentration (volume fraction) around 0.15 to 0.2, experiments conducted in the MHz range have shown that the non ideal nature of water must be taken into account for the "longitudinal" coherent wave attenuation to be understood, because of wave conversions, from longitudinal to shear and then back to longitudinal, occurring at each pair of scattering events. We are interested here in the properties of the "shear" coherent wave that are given by the expansion of its squared wavenumber, around that in the absence of particles, in powers of the concentration. At 1 MHz and a particle radius of 0.05 m, we show that convergence of the modal series involved in that expansion may be reached after three terms: we use ten terms subsequently. We study the evolution of both the effective shear velocity and attenuation with concentration, as well as that of the effective shear viscosity deduced therefrom.

History

School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

Journal of Physics : Conference Series

Citation

ALAM, M. ... et al, 2017. The coherent shear wave in suspensions. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1017: 012003.

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Version

  • NA (Not Applicable or Unknown)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Acceptance date

2017-11-15

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by IOP under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This paper was presented at the 16th Anglo-French Physical Acoustics Conference (AFPAC)

ISSN

1742-6588

eISSN

1742-6596

Language

  • en

Usage metrics

    Loughborough Publications

    Licence

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC