An Introduction to Rheology

Using this introductory textbook, undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical, chemical or process engineering will acquire essential skills to grasp rheology's importance in materials science and engineering. They then can apply that knowledge to real-world engineering problems, while their professors will find relevant information for other courses in advanced fluid mechanics. Each new approach in numerical or theoretical modeling is clarified with a minimum of mathematical computations but with many concrete examples and illustrations, including typical exercises and solutions.

Sebastien Poncet is assistant Professor at Aix-Marseille University, M2P2 laboratory, Sections Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering. He graduated with MSc in physical oceanography in 2002 from ISITV and obtained a PhD in complex fluid mechanics in 2005 from Aix-Marseille University, IRPHE’s laboratory. He was assistant lecturer at Aix-Marseille University between 2005 and 2006 and received a permanent position of Assistant Professor after that. His main fields of research concern experiments, numerical modelings and theoretical approaches of the fluid flow and heat transfer in rotating systems for turbomachinery or geophysical applications or for fundamental purposes. He recently began working on the simulation of mucus flow in the bronchial tree. He has published over thirty international journal papers, forty conference papers in national or international conferences, and seven industrial reports. He received two national prizes for his PhD dissertation on rotor-stator flows. Among his teaching activities, he provides an introductory course on rheology to students at the Energy and Thermal Engineering Department (GTE) of the University Institute of Technology (IUT) in Marseilles.

Bikash Sahoo is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He did his MSc in Mathematics from Sambalpur University and received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He worked as a BOYSCAST fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. His areas of research are non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, and differential equations. He has authored nearly seventeen journal papers with foreign collaborators and many conference papers. Recently he began working on non-Newtonian turbulence.