Complex Fluids and Rheology

Catalog description

Microstructural basis of constitutive models for simple complex fluids (dilute suspensions of non-spherical Brownian particles). Qualitative physics that leads to viscoelastic behavior in a variety of complex fluids, including polymeric liquids (dilute solutions and melts), wormlike micelle solutions, liquid crystalline fluids, emulsions, gels, and suspensions of vesicles or cells. Relationship between microscale physics and macroscopic rheology of materials in flow, including spatial non-uniformities in material properties that arise when flow couples to concentration or molecular weight.