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The rheology of fibre suspensions. (English) Zbl 0948.76079

Summary: We review theoretical work on the rheology of fibre suspensions. We seek to clarify one or two confusions in published work, and also give a small improvement to Batchelor’s formula for extensional viscosity of suspensions of long fibres between the dilute and semi-dilute régimes.

MSC:

76T20 Suspensions
76A05 Non-Newtonian fluids
76-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics
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