THE RHEOLOGY OF CONCENTRATED DISPERSIONS: STRUCTURE CHANGES AND SHEAR THICKENING IN EXPERIMENTS AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS

The flow-induced changes in the microstructure and rheol. of very concd., shear thickening dispersions are studied. Results obtained for polystyrene sphere dispersions are compared with previous data and computer simulations to give better insight into the processes occurring in the dispersions. [on SciFinder (R)]