Shear and extensional flows. Elementary theories of non-linear viscoelastic behavior. Isotrophy, objectivity, frame-indiffernce. Shear and extensional rheometry. An advanced treatment of the thermodynamics of pure and multicomponent systems.
Topics range from classical thermodynamics to a discussion of modern developments.
No description Course may be repeated for credit. Existence and uniqueness of solutions for linear equations. Numerical solution of linear equations. Gauss elimination, band matrices, finite differences. Inner products, norms, orthogonality.