Colloidal Soft Matter under Shear Flow (A04)

• Fachliche Zuordnung: Theoretische Physik der kondensierten Materie
• Förderung: Förderung von 2002 bis 2013
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 5485412

Suspensions of colloidal mixtures and mixtures of colloids and flexible polymers will be studied under the influence of shear flow by a particle-based mesoscale simulation technique. Special emphasis will be on the influence of the multicomponent nature of the mixtures on their structural, dynamical, and rheological properties as well as shear-induced phase modifications. Moreover, the dynamical and transport properties of such systems will be elucidated in the simultaneous presence of shear flow and a gravitational field, which is expected to modify the flow-induced phase behavior.

• DFG-Verfahren: Transregios
• Teilprojekt zu: TRR 6: Physik von kolloidalen Dispersionen in äußeren Feldern
• Antragstellende Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Mitantragstellende Institution: Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Teilprojektleiter: Professor Dr. Gerhard Gompper; Professor Dr. Roland G. Winkler