Experimental studies of the flow of concentrated hard sphere suspensions into a constriction

@article{isa06, abstract = {Interesting flow properties are observed when a concentrated suspension of colloidal particles flows into a geometrical constriction. We present here a description of two different experimental techniques used to study the pressure driven flow of dense suspensions of micron-sized hard spheres into glass capillaries. The first one involves the analysis of the driving pressure during the flow, the other one is based on fast confocal microscopy. Technical details are given, together with a selection of preliminary results.}, author = {Isa, L. and Besseling, R. and Weeks, E. R. and Poon, W. C. K.}, citeulike-article-id = {688326}, doi = {10.1088/1742-6596/40/1/016}, issn = {1742-6596}, journal = {Journal of Physics: Conference Series}, keywords = {colloids, confocal, jamming, microfluidics, pmma}, number = {1}, pages = {124--132}, posted-at = {2007-09-20 05:22:36}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Institute of Physics Publishing}, title = {Experimental studies of the flow of concentrated hard sphere suspensions into a constriction}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/40/1/016}, volume = {40}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - isa06 L3 - citeulike-article-id:688326 N2 - Interesting flow properties are observed when a concentrated suspension of colloidal particles flows into a geometrical constriction. We present here a description of two different experimental techniques used to study the pressure driven flow of dense suspensions of micron-sized hard spheres into glass capillaries. The first one involves the analysis of the driving pressure during the flow, the other one is based on fast confocal microscopy. Technical details are given, together with a selection of preliminary results. IS - 1 JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series SN - 1742-6596 EP - 132 TI - Experimental studies of the flow of concentrated hard sphere suspensions into a constriction PB - Institute of Physics Publishing VL - 40 SP - 124 KW - colloids KW - confocal KW - jamming KW - microfluidics KW - pmma AU - Isa, L AU - Besseling, R AU - Weeks, ER AU - Poon, WCK PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/40/1/016 ER -