This excellent reference and handbook for processing non-Newtonian materials highlights qualitative differences between the response of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in the complex flows encountered in real-world processing applications. Completely revised and expanded, with a wide variety of new topics and updates on earlier coverage, this second edition remains rooted in the scientific foundations of particle motion in non-Newtonian media. The book includes a discussion of the formation, breakage, and coalescence of bubbles and drops moving in non-Newtonian fluids, as encountered in spraying, in multiphase reactors, and in the production of foams and emulsions.

From the Preface: “...[This book] has been written to accomplish the following two specific goals: 1) To provide a reference text for research workers by way of presenting a comprehensive and critical evaluation of the voluminous literature available on the particle motion in non-Newtonian media and the related multiparticle process applications...2) To provide useful design information often required by practicing scientists and engineers in day-to-day routine calculations such as the estimation of the minimum fluidization velocity or the prediction of pressure drop for flow through a fixed bed of particles, etc....”

Target Audience: Scientists, graduate students, technologists and researchers who are concerned with particle motion in non-Newtonian media.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Non-Newtonian Fluid Behavior

Rigid Particles in Time-Dependent Liquids without a Yield Stress

Rigid Particles in Visco-Plastic Liquids

Rigid Particles in Visco-Elastic Fluids

Fluid Particles in Non-Newtonian Media

Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow in Porous Media and Packed Beds

Fluidization and Hindered Settling

Heat and Mass Transfer in Particulate Systems

Wall Effects

Falling Object Rheometry

References

Index