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These two volumes contain chapters written by experts in such areas as bio and food rheology, polymer rheology, flow of suspensions, flow in porous media, electrorheological fluids, etc. Computational as well as analytical mathematical descriptions, involving appropriate constitutive equations deal with complex flow situations of industrial importance. This work is unique in that it brings together state of the art reviews and recent advances in a variety of areas, involving viscoelastic materials, in a desirable and timely manner.
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PREFACE These two parts bring together a number of authoritative, state-of-the-art reviews and contributions, written by well recognized experts in the field of"flow and rheology of non-Newtonian fluids." Knowledge of non-Newtonian behavior is of vital importance to a variety of manufacturing processes including, for example, mixing, shear-thickening, fibre spinning, coating, and molding. This work covers areas such as bio- and food- rheology, electro-rheological fluids, polymers, flow in porous media, and suspensions. Complex and industrial flow situations are dealt with via analytical, as well as, numerical methods. In Chapter 1, a critical account of advances made in the area of flow-induced interactions in circulation is presented. Chapters 2 & 3 deal with shear-thickening in biopolymeric systems, and with the rheology of food emulsions, respectively. The next six chapters are on complex flows, in particular, Chapter 4 discusses worm-like micellar surfactant solutions. Chapter 5 covers time periodic flows. Chapter 6 communicates on secondary flows in tubes of arbitrary shape. Chapter 7 relates effects of non-Newtonian fluids on cavitation. Chapter 8 discusses viscoelastic Taylor-Vortex flow. Chapter 9 deals with non-Newtonian mixing. This is followed by two chapters on computational methods relevant to homogeneous viscoelastic fluids at the macro-level. The next major section is on constitutive equations and viscoelastic fluids. Chapter 12 discusses recent advances in transient network theory. Chapter 13 deals with theories based on fractional derivatives and Chapter 14 involves kinetic theory. Chapters 15 and 16 put forward new concepts approaching the constitutive structure of polymeric melts. The next chapter communicates the theory of flow of smectic liquid crystals. Part A ends with an overview of extensional flows. Volume B starts with a section on electro-rheological fluids. The first two chapters in the section summarize the constitutive theories for electro-rheological fluids from the continuum and molecular points of view. Chapter 21 relates a comprehensive approach to the constitutive structure of electromagnetic fluids, and the following two chapters deal with the properties of electro-rheological fluids. The next section covers some industrial flows related to drag reduction, and paper coating. Polymer processing and the related rheology are discussed in Chapters 26-29. In particular, the rheology of long discontinuous iber thermoplastic composites, thermo-mechanical modelling of polymer processing, injection molding and flow of melts in channels with moving boundaries are covered in Chapters 26-29 respectively. Free surface viscoelastic and liquid crystalline polymer fibers and jets, and numerical sinmlation of melt spinning of polyethylene fibers are the subject of Chapters )0 and 31, respectively. vi Section 9 contains two chapters dealing with foam flow and non-Newtonian flow in porous media. Section 10 discusses four chapters on various aspects of suspension.Chapter 34 reviews and puts forth new ideas on the fluid dynamics of fine suspensions. Chapter 35 deals with concentrated suspensions. This section ends with a discussion on fiber suspensions and fluidized beds. The last section of Part B contains a discussion on transport-phenomena involving he