Abstract
DR. SCOTT BLAIR deals mainly with the flow of non-Newtonian liquids: that is, those whose apparent viscosity varies with the rate of shear. We may regard these cases of anomalous viscosity from either of two points of view: that the anomaly is the interference with the normal hydrodynamical flow of the solvent by the solute particles; or, we may treat the system as a close-packed ‘pudding’ of particles separated by the dispersion medium. the latter, which is followed in this book, automatically becomes the method of approach of many industrial problems, since these are problems of the ‘body’ of systems in which the concentration of disperse phase is large. It is certain that, for dilute systems, the coaxial cylinder viscometer is preferable for theoretical reasons which are fundamental and well known.
An Introduction to Industrial Rheology
By Dr. G. W. Scott Blair. Pp. xiii + 143. (London: J. and A. Churchill, Ltd., 1938.) 7s. 6d.
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L., A. Physics. Nature 144, 197 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144197c0
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