The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Owing to nonlinear viscoelasticity, materials often show characteristic features that resemble
those of thixotropy. This issue has been debated in the literature over the past several …

Thixotropy is a phenomenon related to time dependent change in viscosity in the presence
or absence of flow. The yield stress, on the other hand, represents the minimum value of …

Soft glassy materials are distinguished by their arrested microstructures and out-of-
equilibrium thermodynamic states. These materials exhibit time dependent evolution of …

We look into the Mpemba effect—the initially hotter sample cools sooner—in a molecular
gas with nonlinear viscous drag. Specifically, the gas particles interact among them via …

Reliable and accurate prediction of complex fluids' response under flow is of great interest
across many disciplines, from biological systems to virtually all soft materials. The challenge …

Dense suspensions of model hard-sphere (HS)-like colloids, with different particle sizes, are
examined experimentally near and in the glass state, under shear and extensional rheology …

The rheology and microstructure of soft particle glasses during startup flow are studied using
three-dimensional particle dynamics simulations at different particle volume fractions and …

The rheological behavior of mature fine tailings (MFTs) is investigated using transient and
steady shear flow fields. The structure breakdown of intact MFT samples is examined by a …

We demonstrate nonequilibrium scaling laws for the aging and equilibration dynamics in
glass formers that emerge from combining a relaxation equation for the static structure with …