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Shear viscosity and shear thinning in two-dimensional Yukawa liquids
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Shear viscosity and shear thinning in two-dimensional Yukawa liquids

Z Donkó, J Goree, P Hartmann and K Kutasi
Physical review letters, Vol.96(14), pp.145003-145003
03/24/2006
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.145003
PMID: 16712085
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0603667View
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Abstract

A two-dimensional Yukawa liquid is studied using two different nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation methods. Shear viscosity values in the limit of small shear rates are reported for a wide range of Coulomb coupling parameter and screening length. At high shear rates it is demonstrated that this liquid exhibits shear thinning, i.e., the viscosity $\eta$ diminishes with increasing shear rate. It is expected that two-dimensional dusty plasmas will exhibit this effect.
Physics - Soft Condensed Matter

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