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 | | Optical Rheometry of Complex Fluids (Topics in Chemical Engineering) by Gerald G. Fuller ISBN-10: 9780195097184 ISBN-10: 0-19-509718-1 ISBN-13: 9780195097184 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509718-4 Hardcover 1995-06-29 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book provides a self-contained presentation of optical methods used to measure the structure and dynamics of complex fluids subject to the influence of external fields. Such fields--hydrodynamic, electric, and magnetic--are commonly encountered in both academic and industrial research, and can produce profound changes in the microscale properties of liquids comprised of polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, or surfactants. Starting with the basic Maxwell field equations, this book discusses the polarization properties of light, including Jones and Mueller calculus, and then covers the transmission, reflection, and scattering of light in anisotropic materials. Spectroscopic interactions with oriented systems such as absorptive dichroism, small wide angle light scattering, and Raman scattering are discussed. Applications of these methods to a wide range of problems in complex fluid dynamics and structure are presented, along with selected case studies chosen to elucidate the range of techniques and materials that can be studied. As the only book of its kind to present a self-contained description of optical methods used for the full range of complex fluids, this work will be special interest to a wide range of readers, including chemical engineers, physical chemists, physicists, polymer and colloid scientists, along with graduate and post-graduate researchers. | ||
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"The book" for rheo-optics! The book, perhaps the only one of its kind in this field, presents the theory of optical rheometry or rheo-optics in its most savage mathematical, logical, comprehensive and self-contained form. The chapters progress through series of equations, and the challenging journey through these is enlightening. The book discusses polarization, dichroism, scattering and optical instrumentation to elucidiate the physics involved in describing a range of complex fluid dynamics. This is an advanced text, useful for researchers and students determined to understand complex fluid dynamics and optical methods that allow watching structure/dynamics under imposed external fields. It is perhaps a good idea to read the last chapter on case studies and applications before indulging in the first nine, and re-read the chapter 10 with all theory read and understood. | ||