Rheology of debris flow materials is controlled by the distance from jamming.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 119(44): e2209109119, 2022 11.
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Debris flows are dense and fast-moving complex suspensions of soil and water that threaten lives and infrastructure. Assessing the hazard potential of debris flows requires predicting yield and flow behavior. Reported measurements of rheology for debris flow slurries are highly variable and sometimes contradictory due to heterogeneity in particle composition and volume fraction ([Formula see text]) and also inconsistent measurement methods. Here we examine the composition and flow behavior of source materials that formed the postwildfire debris flows in Montecito, CA, in 2018, for a wide range of [Formula see text] that encapsulates debris flow formation by overland flow. We find that shear viscosity and yield stress are controlled by the distance from jamming, [Formula see text], where the jamming fraction [Formula see text] is a material parameter that depends on grain size polydispersity and friction. By rescaling shear and viscous stresses to account for these effects, the data collapse onto a simple nondimensional flow curve indicative of a Bingham plastic (viscoplastic) fluid. Given the highly nonlinear dependence of rheology on [Formula see text], our findings suggest that determining the jamming fraction for natural materials will significantly improve flow models for geophysical suspensions such as hyperconcentrated flows and debris flows.
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