Chem Eng 775, 3 lecture hours, Call # 03854-1, Spring 2005
Tentative Class hours: T, R 1:00 ~ 2:18 PM in KL 330

Instructor: Bob Brodkey

Office: 321C Koffolt Labs
Office Hours: any and all afternoons
Phone: 292-2609
E-mail: brodkey.1@osu.edu

Teaching Associate: Wu Ge

Office Hours Room: 133 Koffolt Labs
Office Hours: T 11 am - 1 pm, W 3 - 5 pm
E-mail: ge.26@osu.edu

Textbooks for the course:

First textbook for the course will be
The Phenomena of Fluid Motions
Robert S. Brodkey, Brodkey Publishing

The Phenomena of Fluid Motions page can offer you guidelines for obtaining copies of the text. This textbook is a new and corrected reprint of the 1967 edition and will be supplemented by notes adapted from other sources.

You will find rheology a necessity in the process industries and you may want to supplement your library with the following. These books are listed in a preferred order, which is a balance between content and cost. These books are not required texts.

Understanding Rheology
Faith A. Morrison, Oxford University Press, (2001). List $109, currently has a 20% discount from the publisher.

The link will take you to the contents and several selected sections that will be used in ChE 775.

Rheology: Principles, Measurements, and Applications
Christopher W. Macosko, VCH Publishers, New York (1994). Available Amazon.com for $121.80.

A Handbook of Elementary Rheology
Howard A. Barnes, Inst. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Univ. of Wales (2000). This book can be hard to get in the USA. It cost 27 British pounds and needs to be ordered from England.

The link will take you to the contents that will indicate what is available in the short text.

There are many additional Reference books that can be used.

Prerequisites: Chem Eng 420 or 520

Course Description, Grading, Policies

A fixed course schedule is not available. Homework, one midterm and one final will be offered and will be schedule to fit as well as we can. The course will cover in order:

About 1/3 of the course will be devoted to these three subjects:

1. The Rheological Characteristics of Materials
2. Rheological Measurements
3. Rheological Equations of State

About 1/3 of the course will be devoted to these two subjects:

4. Viscometric Flows needed for Measurements (We will try to arrange a guided tour of our Rheological facilities)
5. This will include how to make measurements and what they mean

The final 1/3 of the course will venture into open discussions about Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow:

6. Practical flow problems. Topics will range from laminar and turbulent flow problems, mixing, and anything else we can think would be interesting. We will try to import Professor Zakin to guide us in a discussion of drag reduction and Professor Koelling and/or Lee to guide us in some special problems that occur in practical polymer work and in nano-technology.

Homework

The Deborah Number by M. REiner from Jan. 1964, Physics Today

Linear Viscoelasticity - Pages 121 -125 from Macosko

Temperature Dependence - Pages 510 - 511 from Macosko

Simple Shear-Free on (Elongatonal) Flows - Section 4.3, 8 pgs. from Faith A. Morrison

Unsteady Shear Section 5.2.2 - 6 pgs. from Faith A. Morrison

Small-Amplitude Oscillary Shear - Section 5.2.2.5 4 pgs. from Faith A. Morrison

The contents of A Handbook of Elementary Rheology - from Barnes

How to Scale-up Mixing Processes in Non-Newtonian Fluid

Turbulent Drag Reduction by Ying Zhang, a lecture for May 26, 2005

Lab Tour