Date
Thu, 12 Nov 2020
Time
16:00 - 17:00
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Helen Wilson
Organisation
University College London

Materials made from a mixture of liquid and solid are, instinctively, very obviously complex. From dilatancy (the reason wet sand becomes dry when you step on it) to extreme shear-thinning (quicksand) or shear-thickening (cornflour oobleck) there is a wide range of behaviours to explain and predict. I'll discuss the seemingly simple case of solid spheres suspended in a Newtonian fluid matrix, which still has plenty of surprises up its sleeve.

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