Engineering Rheology

This book sets out to provide a guide with examples for those who wish to make predictions about the mechanical and thermal behaviour of non-Newtonian materials in engineering and processing technology. After an introductory survey of the field and a review of basic continuum mechanics the radical differences between elongational and shear behaviour are shown. Two chapters one based on a continuum approach and the other using microstructural approaches lead to useful mathematical desriptions of materials for engineering applications. As examples of nearly-viscometric and nearly-elongational flows there is a 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 much new material not available in book form elsewhere-for example wall slip suspension rheology computational rheology and new results in stability theory.