Bubbles Drops and Particles in Non-Newtonian Fluids

Bubbles Drops and Particles in Non-Newtonian Fluids Second Edition continues to provide thorough coverage of the scientific foundations and the latest advances in particle motion in non-Newtonian media. The book demonstrates how dynamic behavior of single particles can yield useful information for modeling transport processes in complex multiphase flows. . Completely revised and expanded this second edition covers macroscopic momentum and heat/mass transfer from a single rigid or fluid particle or ensembles of particles involving strong inter-particle interactions including packed beds fluidized beds and porous media with different types of non-Newtonian fluids. It reflects advances made since the publication of the previous bestselling edition with new material on topics such as extensional flow; time-independent time-dependent and visco-elastic fluids; free settling behavior of non-spherical particles; and particle motion in visco-elastic and visco-plastic fluids boundary layer flows flows in porous media and falling object rheometry. . An excellent reference and handbook dealing with the technological aspects of non-Newtonian materials encountered in nature and in technology this book highlights qualitative differences between the response of a Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in the complex flows encountered in processing applications.