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Fluids with featureless microstructures are well described by the Newtonian constitutive equation, which states that the stress tensor is proportional to the shear rate tensor (these concepts will be made precise later). Fluids with complex microstructures, for example suspensions of particles or droplets (blood, paint, ink, asphalt, bitumen, foodstuffs, etc.), polymer melts and solutions (molten plastics, fibre-reinforced or particulate-filled plastics), exhibit a wide variety of behaviours.
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The film Rheological Behavior of Fluids, presented by Prof. Hershel Markovitz, should be watched at this point. It contains the main important non-Newtonian flow phenomena and can be found at the site www.web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf.html. This site is a depository of a large number of other interesting fluid mechanics films. The book by Boger and Walters [10] should also be consulted - it contains a large number of interesting photographs detailing non-Newtonian behaviours.
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Karl Weissenberg (1893–1976) contributed significantly to Rheology in the early years, and has several phenomena named after him.
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Phan-Thien, N., Mai-Duy, N. (2017). Rheological Properties. In: Understanding Viscoelasticity. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62000-8_2
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