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Picano, F. (author), Breugem, W.P. (author), Mitra, D. (author), Brandt, L. (author)Shear thickening appears as an increase of the viscosity of a dense suspension with the shear rate, sometimes sudden and violent at high volume fraction. Its origin for noncolloidal suspension with non-negligible inertial effects is still debated. Here we consider a simple shear flow and demonstrate that fluid inertia causes a strong...journal article 2013