Flows in Polymers, Reinforced Polymers and Composites: A Multi-Scale Approach

Preface.- 1 Multi-scale modeling and simulation of polymer flow.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Macroscopic modeling and simulations.- 1.3 Multi-scale kinetic theory of viscoelastic flow.- 1.4 Micro-macro simulations using the stochastic approach.- 1.5 Micro-macro simulations using the Fokker-Planck approach.- 1.6 The impact of closure approximations.- 1.7 Illustrative examples of complex flow simulations.- 1.8 Discussion.- 1.9 Conclusions.- References.- 2 Complex flows of micro/nano structured fluids: Reinforced polymer composites.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Dilute and semi-dilute suspensions.- 2.3 Processing flow simulation.- 2.4 Concentrated suspensions involving rod clusters.- 2.5 Advanced topics.- References.- 3 Flows of simple fluids in complex microstructures.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Description of fibrous microstructures in composites.- 3.3 Governing equations for flows in porous media.- 3.4 Flow of simple fluids in non-deformable fibrous microstructures.- 3.5 Flow of complex fluids in non-deformable fibrous microstructures.- 3.6 Numerical simulation.- References.