Electroviscous effect of moderately concentrated colloidal suspensions under overlapping conditions.

In this work we present a theoretical model for the calculation of the electroviscous coefficient of a colloidal suspension. The treatment is not limited for dilute suspensions and includes the contribution of the overlapping between adjacent ionic layers. The development here used is based on a cell model, which is applicable to Newtonian suspensions under low shear conditions and without crystalline ordering. Also presented are a complete study of the new numerical results and comparisons with previous results. We find new behaviors for the case of moderate volume fractions that do not appear in the dilute limit.