Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RHEOLOGY ***** Calculus and time derivatives of directed quantites. Elastic solid, Newtonian liquid. Shear and extensional flows. Linear Viscoelaticitiy. Non-linear viscoelasticity: rate- and time-dependent shear and extensional viscosity, normal stressess in shear. Elementary theories of non-linear viscoelastic behavior. Isotrophy, objectivity, frame-indifference. Shear and extensional rheometry. Special topics: thermodynamics of microstructured materials; fine-grained theories of polymer dynamics; computational rheology.