Engineering Rheology

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Department of Process Engineering

Synopsis:

Description of rheological phenomena. Review of continuum mechanics. The stress tensor. Motion and deformation. Conservation of mass, momentum and energy. General rules for constitutive equations. Viscometric and elongational flows. Lubrication, calendaring and related flows. Fibre spinning and film blowing. Heat transfer in non-Newtonian fluids. Stability of flow and turbulence. Drag reducing fluids. Turbulent. Electrorheological materials.

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1. Choice of the thematic domain studied during the course, suggestion of basic literature sources

2. Consultations

3. Elaboration of a simple theoretical or experimental research study

4. Analysis and discussion of results obtained

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