Discontinuous shear thickening of a moderately dense inertial suspension of hydrodynamically interacting frictionless soft particles

Satoshi Takada, Kazuhiro Hara, Hisao Hayakawa

We demonstrate that discontinuous shear thickening (DST) can occur even in moderately dense, inertial suspensions of hydrodynamically interacting, frictionless soft particles. Usin…