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Handouts
CM4650
Polymer Rheology

Dr. F. A. Morrison


A Caution about Sign Convention of Stress  posted 5 Oct 2012

General Handouts
Details on how to calculate convection through a surface   posted 19 Jan 2011
Details on how to calculate flow rate in an internal flow  posted 26 Jan 2011
Details on how to calculate force on a wall in flow  posted 26 Jan 2011
Details on how to calculate torque in a flow  posted 26 Jan 2011

Equation of Continuity and Equation of Motion in Three Coordinate Systems
Differential Operations with Del in Curvilinear coordinates  posted 28 April 2009
Handy equations from Newtonian Fluid Mechanics  posted 31 Jan 2012
Newtonian Constitutive Equation in Three Coordinate Systems with Mechanics Stress Convention   posted 5 Oct 2012


Does the Equation of Motion predict rod climbing? posted 07 Feb 04
Handout for using Excel Solver to fit a function  posted 12 April 05
Handout for creating Web Pages using Netscape Composer
LVE data from Chapter 2 John Ferry, Viscoelastic Properties of Polymers   posted 28 Feb 05
Table of Contents from John Ferry, Viscoelastic Properties of Polymers, 2nd edition, 1980 (Wiley, NY)  posted 28 Feb 05
2009 Summary of Material Behavior - Exam 2   posted 20 Mar 09
2010-11 Summary of Material Behavior - Exam 2   posted 05 Mar 11
2012 Summary of Material Behavior - Exam 2   posted 16 Mar 12
Notes from deriving SAOS for the Generalized Maxwell model  posted 1 April 2011
Notes from Classroom Presentation of the Turntable Example GLVE Fluid   posted 12 April 05
Handout Page CM4655 Polymer Rheology Lab

Exam Handouts
Exam1 Handout with Formulas   posted 24 November 05
Exam2 Handout with Formulas  posted 30 March 2011
Exam Final Handout with Formulas  posted 28 April 09
Exam Final Table 9.3 Handout   posted 28 April 09

Worsheets
Excel 2003 file for fitting Generalized Maxwell Model to LVE data  posted 24 October 05
Excel 2003 file for fitting Carreau Yasuda model to viscosity data  posted 6 October  2007


Misc handouts
Math Review Drills (T. B. Co 2010)
Handy Sheet for Unit Conversions
Review of Integration and solutions to differential equations (to be posted)
Markovitz, NCFFF Notes, "Rheological Behavior of Fluids"
GLVE model predictions of velocity profile in steady shear
What's wrong with the infinitesimal strain tensor? (lead up to polar decomposition)
Finite Strain Hooke predictions in rigid body rotation
Lodge turntable example
Derivation of Hooke's Law for Elastic Solids (Finger Tensor) from molecular picture posted 24 November 05
Rheometry notes:  Parallel plate and Cone and plate  2005
Predictions of GLVE Model, (PDF) posted 24 October 05
Predictions of Corotational Maxwell Model, (PDF) posted 23 November 05
Predictions of Corotational Jeffreys Model, (PDF) posted 23 November 05
Constitutive Equations for Polymers (PDF) posted 14 December 05
LaTex Handout from UWisc, Julie Mitchell posted 31 January 06
Comments on Rouse model related to problem 8.34 (relaxation time spectrum)
John Dealy's article on Relaxation-time Fitting from Rheology Bulletin part1  part2  posted 7 October  2007
Helpful hints on typing equations using MSWord 2007 Equation Editor
MTU AIChE Oobleck Handout 2008 Spring
An interesting Short Course

Misc papers on rheology (no emphasis intended, I just had these and wanted to store them somewhere)
Introduction to Fluid Rheology (including rheophysics) by Christophe Ancey posted 16 Jan 06
Extrusion Instabilities and Wall Slip (2001) paper by Mort Denn  posted 21 Sept 04
Non-Newtonian Flow Effects during Spin Coating Large-Area Optical Coatings with Colloidal Suspensions (1991) paper by Jerald Britten and Ian Thomas  posted 21 Sept 04
Simple Models for Complex Nonequilibrium Fluids (2004) paper by Martin Kroger  posted 22 Sept 04
Marcus Reiner's article on Deborah Number
  posted 3 Sept 07
Bird Curtiss article "Fascinating Polymeric Liquids," Physics Today posted 3 Sept 07
History of Rheology by Deepak Doraiswamy posted 3 Sept 07
Wyss et al. on Using Rheology for Relaxation Time Estimation posted 5 Nov 07
Properties of Corn Starches posted 11 Apr 08
Eric Weeks' web page on confocal microscopy
Eric Weeks' web page on jamming
Norm Wagner and John Brady's October 2009 Physics Today on Oobleck (Shear Thickening)   posted 21 Nov 09


Some Links
An Online Polymer Rheology book linked 31 Oct 2011
A presentation on industrial aspects of rheology linked 31 Oct 2011
Practical Rheology Course  linked 31 Oct 2011
Rheology of Soft Materials  linked 31 Oct 2011
Computer Aided Rheology Course linked 31 Oct 2011
Donald G. Baird, "Flow behavior of viscoelastic fluids," in AccessScience, ©McGraw-Hill Companies, 2011, http://www.accessscience.com linked 1 Nove 2011

        


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