The fluid-glass transition for hard spheres

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Abstract

A gravity-driven hard sphere simulation is used to study the phenomena of disorder-order transitions, or simply the glass transition from a granular hard sphere fluid to a jammed glass. We find a diverging length scale and a diverging viscosity at this transition and compare our simulation to experiment on the connection between local velocity fluctuations and shear rate.

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Authors

  • John Drozd

    University of Western Ontario

  • Colin Denniston

    University of Western Ontario