Theoretical Challenges in the Dynamics of Complex Fluids

. Ed(s): McLeish, Tom

ISBN 10: 0792346076 / ISBN 13: 9780792346074

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 24 March-4 April 1996 Editor(s): McLeish, Tom. Series: NATO Science Series E:. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHFC; PHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 675. . 1997. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Theoretical Challenges in the Dynamics of Complex Fluids
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792346076
• ISBN 13: 9780792346074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

No-one who took part in the NATO Advanced Studies Institute from which this book emerges will have forgotten the experience. True, the necessary conditions for a very successful workshop were satisfied: a field of physics bursting with new power and new puzzles, a matchless team of lecturers, an international gathering of students many of whom had themselves contributed at the forefront of their subject, an admirable overlap of experiment and theory, a good mix of experimenters and theorists, an enviable environment. But who could have foreseen the way the workshop became a focus for future directions, how fresh scientific ideas tumbled out of the discussion periods, how the context of teaching the field produced such fruitfulness of research at the highest level? The organisers did have some specific aims in mind. Perhaps foremost was the desire to compare notes among different areas within the sub field of soft condensed matter physics fast becoming known as "complex fluids". For readers seeking a definition, the prosaic "fluids with bits in" can be passed rapidly over in favour of the elegant discussion of slow variables by Scott Milner in his chapter. The uniting goals of the subject are to model the essential molecular or mesoscopic structure theoretically, and to probe this structure as well as the bulk response of the system experimentally. Our famous examples were: colloids, polymers, liquid crystals, block co-polymers and self-assembling surfactant systems.