Microcontinuum Field Theories: II. Fluent Media [Paperback]

This volume extends and applies the ideas developed in Volume I, Microcontinuum Field Theories: Foundations and Solids, to liquid crystals, biological fluids and other microstretch and micomorphic fluids. It also discusses the properties of materials beyond the scope of classical field theories.

Microcontinuum Field Theories constitutes an extension of classical field theories - of elastic solids, viscous fluids, electromagnetism, and the like - to microscopic length and time scales. Material bodies are viewed as collections of a large number of deformable particles (sub-continua), suitable for modeling blood, porous media, polymers, liquid crystals, slurries, and composite materials.This volume extends and applies the ideas developed in the first volume, Microcontinuum Field Theories: Foundations and Solids, to liquid crystals, biological fluids, and other microstretch and micomorphic fluids. The theory makes it possible to discuss properties of such materials that are beyond the scope of classical field theories and may provide a basis for the resolution of some outstanding problems, such as turbulence.I.Preface 9. Micropolar Fluid Dynamics 10. Electrodynamics of Micropolar Fluids 11. Anistotropic Fluids and Suspensions 12. Liquid Crystals 13. Electrodynamics of Liquid Crystals 14. Selected Problems in Liquid Crystals 15. Microstretch Fluids 16. Electrodynamics of Polymeric Liquid Crystals 17. Micromorphic Fluids ReferencesMicrocontinuum field theories constitute an extension of classical field theories to microscopic spaces and short time scales. The ideas developed here are important, for example, in considering the fluid or elastic properties of blood, porous media, polymers, liquid crystals, slurries, and composite materials.Springer Book Archives