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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Soft Matter

The sinking dynamics of a solid intruder in concentrated cornstarch suspensions studied using ultra-fast magnetic resonance imaging

  • Nikolay Kirov
  • Christopher Mclaren
  • Klaas Pruessmann
  • Christoph Müller
  • Alexander Penn
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Abstract

The sinking of intruders in concentrated cornstarch suspensions is governed by localized, transient dynamics that are difficult to access experimentally because of the opacity of the material. Here, we use real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate the sinking of spherical intruders in cornstarch suspensions at solid fractions ϕ0 = 0.41 and 0.44. Ultra-fast 1D MRI measurements show that, consistent with earlier reports, the intruders pass through an impact transient, an oscillatory sinking regime, and late stop and go cycles near the bottom boundary. By varying the intruder diameter at fixed suspension composition, we find that larger intruders sink more slowly, while the oscillations in the intermediate sinking regime exhibit similar characteristic frequencies and amplitudes for all three sizes. A reduced drag-memory model further shows that these oscillatory sinking velocities can be described reasonably well by a common phenomenological history-dependent response for the presented conditions. The 1D MRI signal maps reveal synchronous signal modulations around the intruder, indicating that the oscillatory motion is coupled to repeated growth and partial relaxation of a perturbed suspension region. Complementary 2D MR velocimetry shows that the motion is not purely vertical, but also includes oscillations in the horizontal direction. We show that the surrounding flow and strain rate fields are strongly heterogeneous, with deformation becoming progressively concentrated beneath the intruder prior to arrest.

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@article{kirov2026sinking,
  title = {{The sinking dynamics of a solid intruder in concentrated cornstarch suspensions studied using ultra-fast magnetic resonance imaging}},
  author = {Nikolay Kirov and Christopher Mclaren and Klaas Pruessmann and Christoph Müller and Alexander Penn},
  journal = {Soft Matter},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1039/d6sm00385k},
  url = {https://hal.science/hal-05765357v1},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - The sinking dynamics of a solid intruder in concentrated cornstarch suspensions studied using ultra-fast magnetic resonance imaging
AU  - Nikolay Kirov
AU  - Christopher Mclaren
AU  - Klaas Pruessmann
AU  - Christoph Müller
AU  - Alexander Penn
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/29
JO  - Soft Matter
DO  - 10.1039/d6sm00385k
UR  - https://hal.science/hal-05765357v1
AB  - The sinking of intruders in concentrated cornstarch suspensions is governed by localized, transient dynamics that are difficult to access experimentally because of the opacity of the material. Here, we use real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate the sinking of spherical intruders in cornstarch suspensions at solid fractions ϕ0 = 0.41 and 0.44. Ultra-fast 1D MRI measurements show that, consistent with earlier reports, the intruders pass through an impact transient, an oscillatory sinking regime, and late stop and go cycles near the bottom boundary. By varying the intruder diameter at fixed suspension composition, we find that larger intruders sink more slowly, while the oscillations in the intermediate sinking regime exhibit similar characteristic frequencies and amplitudes for all three sizes. A reduced drag-memory model further shows that these oscillatory sinking velocities can be described reasonably well by a common phenomenological history-dependent response for the presented conditions. The 1D MRI signal maps reveal synchronous signal modulations around the intruder, indicating that the oscillatory motion is coupled to repeated growth and partial relaxation of a perturbed suspension region. Complementary 2D MR velocimetry shows that the motion is not purely vertical, but also includes oscillations in the horizontal direction. We show that the surrounding flow and strain rate fields are strongly heterogeneous, with deformation becoming progressively concentrated beneath the intruder prior to arrest.
SN  - 1744-683X
SN  - 1744-6848
ER  -