Free Online Course: Rheology of Complex Materials provided by Swayam is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 12 weeks long. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Rheology of Complex Materials is taught by Abhijit Banerjee and Abhijit P. Deshpande.
12 weeks long
Finished
Non-Newtonian fluids are encountered in various engineering applications. This course introduces concepts required to analyze the behaviour of such fluids. Since micro-structural features of materials are responsible for non-Newtonian nature, this course describes the most commonly used classes of material systems and their rheological behaviour.
Week 1: Flow phenomena in complex materials and microstructure; Complex materials; Applications of rheology, with some example material systems
Week 2: Stress, strain rate, velocity gradient; Kinematics for simple flows
Week 3: Rheometric flows; Rheometers – general review
Week 4: Tensors and index notation; Viscous fluids; Stress relaxation
Week 5: Maxwell model; Oscillatory shear
Week 6: Relaxation time spectrum; Generalized Maxwell model; Time temperature superposition; Solidlike materials
Week 7: General linear viscoelastic material – linear response; Review of material functions
Week 8: Survey – polymers; Survey – glass-rubber transition
Week 9: Survey – multiphase systems; Experimental artifacts – fluid mechanics of cone/plate geometry
Week 10: Strain and convected rate; Normal stress, stress growth
Week 11: Yield stress fluids – Hershel Belkley model, thixotropic fluids – Structural MODEL
Week 12: Terms in nonlinear models; Microscopic origin of stress
