Recent Progress in the Viscosity Modeling of Concentrated Suspensions of Unimodal Hard Spheres

Abstract

The viscosity models for concentrated suspensions of unimodal hard spheres published in the twenty-first century are reviewed, compared, and evaluated using a large pool of available experimental data. The Pal viscosity model for unimodal suspensions is the best available model in that the predictions of this model agree very well with the low (zero)-shear experimental relative viscosity data for coarse suspensions, nanosuspensions, and coarse suspensions thickened by starch nanoparticles. The average percentage error in model predictions is less than 6.5%. Finally, the viscous behavior of concentrated multimodal suspensions is simulated using the Pal model for unimodal suspensions.