Basic Information
Review of Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Key Non-newtonian Phenomena# Viscoelasticity, Viscoplasticity, Shear Thinning, Shear Thickening, Yield Stress, Normal Stress Differences, Relaxation Time, Extensional Thickening, Material Functions For Non-newtonian Fluids# Steady And Start-up Simple Shear and Extensional Flows, Fundamental Conservation Laws That Govern Non-newtonian Flows and Non-dimensional Numbers, Linear Viscoelasticity, Fluid Mechanics of Rheometry, Elementary Constitutive Equations and Their Use in Non-newtonian Fluid Mechanics# Generalized Newtonian Models, Nonlinear Viscoelastic Models, Viscoplastic Models, Channel Flows of Complex Fluids, Free-surface Flows of Non-newtonian Fluids, Microstructure, Conformation And Elastic Dumbbell Model For Dilute Polymers, Experimental Demonstrations# Rod-climbing Weissenberg Effect, Shear Thinning, Shear Thickening, Extensional Thickening (open-siphon Effect). Learning Outcomes# at The End of The Course The Students Will Know# 1. Gained an Understanding of The Key Non-newtonian Phenomena, Such As Viscoelasticity, Viscoplasticity, Shear Thinning, Shear Thickening, Yield Stress, and Their Effect On The Basic Flows Used in The Rheological Characterization of Complex Fluids._ 2. Furthermore, The Student Will Be Equipped With The Necessary Skills to Formulate The Governing Equations That Account For The Non-newtonian Characteristics of The Flow and Derive Reduced-order Models That Describe The Motion of Complex Non-newtonian Fluids Relevant to a Wide Range of Scientific and Engineering Problems For Both Fundamental Research and Industrial Applications.
Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
|Graduate Studies
Pre-required courses
(34013 - Fluid Mechanics 1 and 104228 - Partial Differential Equations/m) or (34055 - Fluid Mechanics 1m and 104228 - Partial Differential Equations/m)
Course with no extra credit (contained)
36110 - Non-newtonian Fluid Mechanics