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Soft matter physics

the rise in viscosity of dense suspensions as shear rate increases, sometimes as an abrupt jump.

In soft matter physics, shear thickening refers to the rise in viscosity of dense suspensions as shear rate increases, sometimes as an abrupt jump. This meaning comes from Brown (2014) in Reports on Progress in Physics.[1]

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References

Brown, E., & Jaeger, H. M. (2014). Shear thickening in concentrated suspensions: phenomenology, mechanisms and relations to jamming. Reports on Progress in Physics, 77(4), 046602. https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/77/4/046602

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