Microstructural Rheology of Complex Fluids

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.