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The presence of drops, bubbles, and particles affects the behavior and response of complex multiphase fluids. In many applications, these complex fluids have more than one non-Newtonian component, e.g., polymer melts, liquid crystals, and blood plasma. In fact, most fluids exhibit non-Newtonian behaviors, such as yield stress, viscoelastity, viscoplasticity, shear thinning, or shear thickening, under certain flow conditions. Even in the complex fluids composed of Newtonian components, the coupling between different components and the evolution of internal boundaries often lead to a complex rheology. Thus the dynamics of drops, bubbles, and particles in both Newtonian fluids and non-Newtonian fluids are crucial to the understanding of the macroscopic behavior of complex fluids. This Special Issue aims to gather a wide variety of papers that focus on drop, bubble and particle dynamics in complex fluids. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, drop deformation, rising drops, pair-wise drop interactions, drop migration in channel flows, and the interaction of particles with flow systems such as pastes and slurries, glasses, suspensions, and emulsions. We emphasize numerical simulations, but also welcome experimental and theoretical contributions.

Complex fluids.

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Understanding the phenomena of complex fluid drops with respect to drying is important for technology and a lot of research in academia and industry is poured into this topic. This book addresses this industrially important area and provides a thorough grounding to the field.

Complex fluids --- Complex fluids. --- Fluid dynamics. --- Drying.

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Summarising recent research on the physics of complex liquids, this in-depth analysis examines the topic of complex liquids from a modern perspective, addressing experimental, computational and theoretical aspects of the field. Selecting only the most interesting contemporary developments in this rich field of research, the authors present multiple examples including aggregation, gel formation and glass transition, in systems undergoing percolation, at criticality, or in supercooled states. Connecting experiments and simulation with key theoretical principles, and covering numerous systems including micelles, micro-emulsions, biological systems, and cement pastes, this unique text is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers looking to explore and understand the expanding field of complex fluids.

Complex fluids. --- Scattering (Physics)

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This is an introduction to the dynamics of fluids at small scales, the physical and mathematical underpinnings of Brownian motion, and the application of these subjects to the dynamics and flow of complex fluids such as colloidal suspensions and polymer solutions. It brings together continuum mechanics, statistical mechanics, polymer and colloid science, and various branches of applied mathematics, in a self-contained and integrated treatment that provides a foundation for understanding complex fluids, with a strong emphasis on fluid dynamics. Students and researchers will find that this book is extensively cross-referenced to illustrate connections between different aspects of the field. Its focus on fundamental principles and theoretical approaches provides the necessary groundwork for research in the dynamics of flowing complex fluids.

Hydrodynamics. --- Brownian motion processes. --- Complex fluids.

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Sonja Dieterich zeigt, dass die Natur der Phasenumwandlung von der smektischen A- in die smektische C Phase ein wichtiges Kriterium für die Anwendbarkeit des Langevin-Modells ist, welches das elektrooptische Verhalten von Flüssigkristallen vom de Vries-Typ beschreibt. Dagegen spielt die genaue chemische Struktur des Mesogens, die seine nanosegregierenden Eigenschaften beeinflusst, eine untergeordnete Rolle. Weiterhin konnte die Autorin smektische Schichten kalamitischer nanosegregierender Mesogene mittels Freeze-Fracture Transmissionselektronenmikroskopie direkt abbilden. Der Inhalt Flüssigkristalle vom de Vries-Typ Beschreibung des elektrooptischen Verhaltens mittels des Langevin-Modells Vergleichende elektrooptische Untersuchungen zur Kopplung von Tiltwinkel und Doppelbrechung Freeze-Fracture Transmissionselektronenmikroskopie smektischer Flüssigkristallphasen Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Chemie, insbesondere der physikochemischen Fachgebiete Flüssigkristallforschung und weiche Materie Die Autorin Sonja Dieterich promoviert derzeit am Institut für Physikalische Chemie der Universität Stuttgart. Nachdem sie sich intensiv mit thermotropen Flüssigkristallen vom de Vries-Typ beschäftigt hat, liegt ihr derzeitiger Forschungsschwerpunkt auf dem Gebiet der gelierten lyotropen Flüssigkristalle.

Amorphous substances. --- Complex fluids. --- Physical chemistry. --- Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics. --- Physical Chemistry.