Understanding Viscoelasticity
Subtitle: An Introduction to Rheology
By: by Nhan Phan-Thien
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Edition: 2nd ed. 2013.
Series: Graduate Texts in Physics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9783642329586
Subjects: Complex Fluids and Microfluidics Soft and Granular Matter; Polymers; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Materials; Materials Science, general; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Physics; Polymer Sciences
Description: This book presents an introduction to viscoelasticity; in particular, to the theories of dilute polymer solutions and dilute suspensions of rigid particles in viscous and incompressible fluids. These theories are important, not just because they apply to practical problems of industrial interest, but because they form a solid theoretical base upon which mathematical techniques can be built, from which more complex theories can be constructed, to better mimic material behaviour. The emphasis is not on the voluminous current topical research, but on the necessary tools to understand viscoelasticity at a first year graduate level. The main aim is to provide a still compact book, sufficient at the level of first year graduate course for those who wish to understand viscoelasticity and to embark in modeling of viscoelastic multiphase fluids. To this end, a new chapter on Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) was introduced which is relevant to model complex-structured fluids. All the basic ideas in DPD are reviewed, with some sample problems to illustrate the methodology.
Table of contents: title: Tensor Notation; title: Rheological Properties; title: Kinematics and Equations of Balance; title: Constitutive Equation; title: Inelastic Models and Linear Viscoelasticity; title: Steady Viscometric Flows; title: Polymer Solutions; title: Suspensions; title: DPD; title: Problems.