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Subject: search.filters.subject.530Institute: search.filters.UBSInstitut.Institut für ComputerphysikStart date: 2004End date: 2009Author: search.filters.author.Hecht, Martin

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    Simulation of peloids
    (2007) Hecht, Martin; Herrmann, Hans J. (Prof. Dr.)
    In this work we investigate dense colloidal suspensions of alumina particles, which we regard as a model system for clay-like soils (peloids). Beyond soil mechanics these suspensions are important for wet processing of work-pieces in ceramics. In the present work we investigate the rheological properties of the suspensions and connect them to the underlying microstructure. Experimental findings depending on the pH value and the salt concentration in the sample (expressed as ionic strength) are reviewed (viscosity versus shear rate, shear thinning, oedometer data, sedimentation experiments, cyclic loading...) and computer simulations are performed to carry out further research work. For this purposes a coupled Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Stochastic Rotation Dynamics (SRD) code has been developed and the simulation results are compared to the experimental data. To describe the surface charge of the particles a charge regulation model, which describes adsorption and desorption of the charge determining ions on the particle surface, has been developed within Debye Huckel theory. This model has been calibrated to measurements of the zeta potential. Starting from the known values, the model allows us to extrapolate to different experimental conditions. Based on characteristic time scales and dimensionless numbers like the Reynolds number and the Peclet number, we apply a scaling scheme to determine the simulation parameters, so that we can achieve a quantitative comparability of simulation and experiment. Using the shear viscosity, shear force, pair correlation function, density fluctuations and structure factor we can identify three different regimes: a clustered regime, a stable suspension, a repulsive structure similar to the structure known from glassy systems. The microstructures are plotted in a stability diagram depending on pH value an ionic strength. The microstructures found in the simulations provide a possibility to explain the relations found in the experiments.