The order-disorder transition in colloidal suspensions under shear flow
arXiv:0706.4386 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/20/03/035104
Abstract
We study the order-disorder transition in colloidal suspensions under shear flow by performing Brownian dynamics simulations. We characterize the transition in terms of a statistical property of time-dependent maximum value of the structure factor. We find that its power spectrum exhibits the power-law behaviour only in the ordered phase. The power-law exponent is approximately -2 at frequencies greater than the magnitude of the shear rate, while the power spectrum exhibits the -type fluctuations in the lower frequency regime.
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