Colloidal Soft Matter under Shear Flow (A04)

• Subject Area: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
• Term: from 2002 to 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 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 Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 6: Physics of Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields
• Applicant Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Co-Applicant Institution: Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Gerhard Gompper; Professor Dr. Roland G. Winkler