Aggregation in a sheared 2D dispersion of spheres with attractive interactions
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- Published by EDP Sciences in Journal de Physique Lettres
- Vol. 46 (2), 67-74
- https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyslet:0198500460206700
Abstract
We present aggregation experiments in a bidimensional suspension of macroscopic spherical particles undergoing a shear. The aggregation is due to attractive capillary forces the value of which can be changed. We introduce a dimensionless quantity A expressing the relative importance of capillary forces and of the shear effect. We observe various aggregate configurations related to the values of A. In particular when the clusters show a fractal structure we find one Hausdorff dimension equal to 1.7 ± 0.05Keywords
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