Transport Phenomena in Complex Fluids

This book provides a thorough overview of transport phenomena in complex fluids, based on the latest research results and the newest methods for their analytical prediction and numerical simulation. The respective chapters cover several topics, including: a description of the structural features of the most common complex fluids (polymer and surfactant solutions, colloidal suspensions); an introduction to the most common non-Newtonian constitutive models and their relationship with the fluid microstructure; a detailed overview of the experimental methods used to characterise the thermophysical properties, bulk rheology, and surface properties of complex fluids; a comprehensive introduction to heat, mass, and momentum transport, and to hydrodynamic instabilities in complex fluids; and an introduction to state-of-the-art numerical methods used to simulate complex fluid flows, with a focus on the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and the Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) techniques. Subsequent chapters provide in-depth descriptions of phenomena such as thermal convection, elastic turbulence, mixing of complex fluids, thermophoresis, sedimentation, and non-Newtonian drops and sprays. The book addresses research scientists and professionals, engineers, R&D managers and graduate students in the fields of engineering, chemistry, biology, medicine, and the applied and fundamental sciences.

Written by leading experts in the field Covers a broad range of topics usually only covered in several different books Structure and content designed to meet the needs of graduate students

Inhalt

Introduction.- Constitutive models of complex fluids.- Experimental methods to characterize complex fluids.- Transport phenomena in viscoelastic fluids.- Transport phenomena in viscoplastic fluids.- Transport phenomena in particle suspensions: sedimentation and thermophoresis.- Transport phenomena across interfaces of complex fluids: drops and sprays.- Advanced particle-based techniques for complex fluids and multiscale flow processes.