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A frictional soliton controls the resistance law of shear-thickening suspensions in pipes

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Pipe flows are commonly found in nature and industry as an effective mean of transporting fluids. They are primarily characterized by their resistance law, which relates the mean flow rate to the driving pressure gradient. Since Poiseuille and Hagen, various flow regimes and fluid rheologies have been investigated, but the behavior of shear-thickening suspensions, which jam above a critical shear stress, remains poorly understood despite important applications (e.g., concrete or food processing). In this study, we build on recent advances in the physics of shear-thickening suspensions to address their flow through pipes and establish their resistance law. We find that for discontinuously shear-thickening suspensions (large particule volume fractions), the flow rate saturates at high driving stress. Local pressure and velocity measurements reveal that this saturation stems from the emergence of a frictional soliton: a unique, localized, superdissipative, and backpropagating flow structure coexisting with the laminar frictionless flow phase observed at low driving stress. We characterize the remarkably steep effective rheology of the frictional soliton and show that it sets the resistance law at the whole pipe scale. These findings offer an unusual perspective on low-Reynolds suspension flows through pipes, intriguingly reminiscent of the transition to turbulence for simple fluids. They also provide a predictive law for the transport of such suspensions in pipe systems, with implications for a wide range of applications.
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hal-04787955 , version 1 (18-11-2024)

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Alexis Bougouin, Bloen Metzger, Yoël Forterre, Pascal Boustingorry, Henri Lhuissier. A frictional soliton controls the resistance law of shear-thickening suspensions in pipes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024, 121 (17), ⟨10.1073/pnas.2321581121⟩. ⟨hal-04787955⟩
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