Fluctuations and like-torque clusters at the onset of the discontinuous shear thickening transition in granular materials

An open question in the field of granular materials and non-equilibrium physics is the origin and interpretation of frictional effects and spatiotemporal fluctuation in the discontinuous shear thickening transition. Here, the authors study numerically the spatiotemporal fluctuations of local injecte...

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Main Authors: S. H. E. Rahbari, Michio Otsuki, Thorsten Pöschel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-04-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00574-8