Engineering Rheology

by Roger I. Tanner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198564737
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/11/2000
Series:	Oxford Engineering Science Series , #52
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	586
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.47(d)

About the Author

University of Sydney

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to rheology2. Review of continuum mechanics3. Viscometric and elongational flows4. Continuum-derived theories and experimental data5. Microstructural theories6. Lubrication, calendaring and related flows7. Fibre spinning and film blowing8. Computational rheology and applications9. Temperature and pressure effects10. Stability of flow and turbulenceAppendix: Formulas in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical conditions

Editorial Reviews

"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 chapters deal with computational rheology, stability and turbulence, and temperature effects in flow. The second editions contains new material on wall slip, suspension rheology, and computational rheology, and new results in stability theory." — Mechanical Engineering, Oct 2000

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