Engineering Rheology [Hardcover]

This book is a guide for those who wish to make predictions about the mechanical and thermal behavior of non-Newtonian materials in engineering and processing technology. An introductory survey of the field and a review of basic continuum mechanics serve to show the radical differences between elongational and shear behavior. Two chapters, one based on a continuum approach and the other using microstructural approaches, lead to useful mathematical descriptions of materials for engineering applications. And there is discussion of lubrication and related shearing flows, and fibre- spinning and film-blowing respectively. A long chapter is devoted to the important new field of computational rheology, and this is followed by chapters on stability and turbulence and the all-important temperature effects in flow. This new edition contains large amounts of material not previously available in book form - for example wall slip, suspension rheology, computational rheology and new results in stability theory.

1. Introduction to rheology
2. Review of continuum mechanics
3. Viscometric and elongational flows
4. Continuum-derived theories and experimental data
5. Microstructural theories
6. Lubrication, calendaring and related flows
7. Fibre spinning and film blowing
8. Computational rheology and applications
9. Temperature and pressure effects
10. Stability of flow and turbulence
Appendix: Formulas in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical conditions

After an introductory survey of the field and a review of basic continuum mechanics, the difference between elongational and shear behavior are discussed. Two chapters, one based on a continuum approach and the other using microstructural approaches, lead to mathematical descriptions of materials for engineering applications. Lubrication and related shearing flows are discussed, as are fiber-spinning and film-blowing, as examples of nearly viscometric and nearly elongational flows. Other lS+