Abstract
We report here magnetic resonance imaging measurements performed on suspensions with a bulk solid volume fraction (ϕ_{0}) up to 0.55 flowing in a pipe. We visualize and quantify spatial distributions of ϕ and velocity across the pipe at different axial positions. For dense suspensions (ϕ_{0}>0.5), we found a different behavior compared to the known cases of lower ϕ_{0}. Our experimental results demonstrate compaction within the jammed region (characterized by a zero macroscopic shear rate) from the jamming limit ϕ_{m}≈0.58 at its outer boundary to the random close packing limit ϕ_{rcp}≈0.64 at the center. Additionally, we show that ϕ and velocity profiles can be fairly well captured by a frictional rheology accounting for both further compaction of jammed regions as well as normal stress differences.
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