L. Gary Leal is Schlinger Distinguished Professor, Emeritus in chemical engineering, and Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was formerly Co-editor-in-Chief of 'Physics of Fluids' (1998–2015) and was founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of 'Physical Review Fluids' (2016–2021). He is the author of two major treatises in fluid dynamics: 'Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Processes' (2007) and 'Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes: Scaling Principles and Asymptotic Analysis' (1992).

• Part I. Non-Deformable Microstructure: 1. Introduction; 2. Fundamentals of determining the constitutive equation for a complex fluid; 3. Dilute suspensions of spherical particles; 4. Dilute suspensions of rigid non-spherical Brownian particles: general formulation and near-spheres; 5. Dilute suspensions of rigid axisymmetric Brownian particles: the role of particle shape on rheology; 6. Semi-dilute suspensions of elongated particles; 7. Nematic liquid crystalline polymers; Part II. Deformable Microstructure: 8. Emulsions without drop breakup or coalescence; 9. The role of drop breakup and coalescence in emulsion rheology; 10. Dilute suspensions of vesicles and capsules; 11. Dilute solutions of flexible polymer molecules; the elastic dumbbell model; 12. Entangled linear polymer solutions and melts; 13. Entangled branched polymer solutions and melts; 14. Flow-induced spatial inhomogeneities in complex fluids; Index.

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