Table of Contents

Editorial.- Plenary Papers.- Carried Along on a Path Line in Modelling Constitutive Equations of Viscoelastic Fluids.- The Rheology of Powders.- Some Inverse Problems in Rheology Leading to Integral Equations.- Keynote Papers.- The Rheology of Fibre Suspensions.- Challenges in Process Rheometry.- The Rheological Properties of Polyacrylamide Solutions in Shear and Extension.- Infrared Polarimetry Studies for Multicomponent Polymer Melts.- Progress and Challenges in Computational Rheology.- Rheology of Rodlike Polymers in the Nematic Phase.- Physiology Mechanics and Rheology.- Rheology of Polymer Gels.- Contributed Papers.- Closure Approximations for Three-Dimensional Orientation Structure Tensors.- Compression Creep of Molten Polymers.- Rheometry of Dilute Solutions of Polyelectrolytes.- Modelling of Slit Devolatilization of Polymers.- Magnetized Polymer Solution Flow in Porous Media.- Fiber Spinning Experiments on Polyox and Polyacrylamide Solutions.- Detection and Quantification of Barus Effect in Viscoelastic Fluid Mixtures.- Modification of Rheological Polymer Behaviour by Ultra-Sound Application.- Rheological Properties of a Micelle System in Solution to be Used as Reference Liquid with Viscoplastic Behaviour.- Liquid Filament Microrheometer and Some of its Applications.- Polymeric Jets Beads-on-String Breakup and Related Phenomena.- Numerical Investigation of Break-up of Viscoelastic Jets.- The Imfluence of Liquid Phase Rheology on Particulate Paste.- Entry and Exit Flows of Non-Newtonian Fluids.- Determination of the Rheological Properties of Solids Using Pulse Propagation Methods.- Experiments and Computer Simulations on the Flow of Concentrated Dispersions.- Peristaltic Flow of Viscoelastic Liquids.- Rheological Rate Type Models Including Temperature History.- The Characterisation of Concentrated Particulate Suspensions that Exhibit Plasticity.- Mixing in Rheologically Complex Fluids.- Anisotropic Conduction of Heat in a Polymeric Material.- The Flow of Surfactant Solutions through Porous Media: Universal Laws.- The Rheology of Weakly-Attracting Colloidal Particles at High Concentrations.- The Rheological Properties of Extrusion-Cooked Wheat Starch in the Moisture Range 27-36%.- Further Investigations on the Modelling of Gravity-Drawn Boger Fluid Jets.- Viscometric Properties of a Dense Aqueous Silica Slurry Containing Iron(III) and Tin(IV) Oxide.- The Use of Viscometers as Mimics of Flow Processes.- Flow of Power Law Fluids through Assemblages of Spherical Particles.- Further Observations of Anomalous Entry Flow Patterns through a Planar Contraction.- Rheology and Mass Transfer in Mycelial Fermentation Broth.- Rheology of Unheated Gellan Gels.- Rheological Behaviour of a Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Copolyester: Hydroxybenzoic Acid/2,6-Hydroxynaphthoic Acid (HBA/HNA).- Injection Moulding of Confectionery Materials.- Inertial Effects in Viscoelastic Flows.- Non-linear Effects in Controlled Stress Oscillation.- On the Corner and Lip Vortices in Abrupt Contractions.- Deformation of Plastic Disperse Systems (PDS) at Low Shear Rates.- Theoretical Considerations on the Steady Rod Climbing at Vanishing Influence of Gravity.- A Computer Code for Simulating Transient Non-isothermal Flows of Non-Newtonian Fluids.- Anisotropic Turbulence in Aqueous Surfactant Solutions.- Shock Disintegration of Polymer Solutions.- Measurement of the Normal Stress Coefficients by Means of an Optical Technique.- Flow of Entangled Polydimethylsiloxanes through Capillary Dies: Characterisation and Modelisation of Wall Slip Phenomena.- Inferring a Retardation Spectrum from Creep Data by a Modified Maximum Entropy Method.- Torsion Pendulum for Measuring the Dynamic Moduli in a Steady Shear Flow.- On the Rheological Properties of Rubber Compounds Containing Different Carbon Black Concentrations.- The Application of Rheometry in the Testing and Characterization of Speciality Thermoplastics.- Viscosity Measurement during Cooling of a Crystallizing Glass.- Influence of Oil Phase Concentration and Temperature on Linear Viscoelastic Properties of Mayonnaise.- The Onset of Viscoelastic Rayleigh-Benard Convection.- Relaxation Times of Aqueous Polyacrylamide Solutions.- Constitutive Equations for Dynamically Loaded Polymer Solids and their Application in a Finite Element Program.- Singular Finite Elements for Fluid Flow Problems with Stress Singularities.- Rheometer Strain and Strain-Rate Errors.- Herbert Freundlich and Thixotropy: The Long Horizon of his Pioneering Insight.- A Power-Law Model of Thixotropy.- Rheological Properties of Liquid Crystalline Hydroxypropylcellulose Aqueous Solutions.- Isotropic and Anisotropic Shear Flow in Continuous Fibre Thermoplastic Composites.- Dynamic Viscoelasticity of Mayonnaise Containing Different Egg Products.- Time-Related Flow Behaviour of Shear Thickening Systems.- A Constitutive Equation Theory of Viscoelastic Fluids.- Unsteady Fibre Spinning of Viscoelastic Fluid.- Drag Reduction by Addition of Konjaku Flour for Turbulent Flow in a Circular Tube.- Investigation of Instability in Rheological Equations of the Differential Type.- The Calibration and Use of the Strathclyde Rheometer for the Study of Plastisols and Related Systems.- On Propagation of Discontinuities in Nonlinear Hereditary Media.- 3D Flow Simulation in Non-Newtonian Fluids.- The Use of Pseudorandom Test Signals in the Rheometry of Linear-Viscoelastic Materials.- The Rheological Behaviour of Water Borne Basecoats.- Recovery of Strain-Induced Damage in Filled and Unfilled Elastomers.- Fluid Failure Mechanisms in Stretching Flows: Extensional Viscosity and Complexation.- Tri-dimensional Effective Properties of Quasi-Periodic Porous Elastic Anisotropic Composite Materials through a New Homogenization Technique.- Stability of Melt Spinning Processes.- Rheological Properties of Iron-Free Kaolin/Water Suspensions.- Extensional Viscosity, an Elusive Property of Mobile Liquids.- The Viscosity of a Smectic Polymer.- Rheological Structure in Bulk Seawater.- The Influence of Concentration and Particle Shape on the Rheology of Silica, Flyash and Other Industrial Slurries.- Equivalent Oldroyd Models.- Transverse Flow of Fibre-Reinforced Composites.- The Rheometric Characterization of Flexible Chain and Liquid Crystal Polymers.- On-Line Measurements of the Rheological Properties of Fermentation Broth.- Simulation of Viscoelastic Fluid Flow Past a Cylinder Using the ‘Method of Lines’.- Excess Thermal Noise Generated during the Capillary Flow of Poly(ethylene Oxide) Solutions: The Influence of the Solvent.- The Influence of Modification of Particle Size of Ceramic Suspensions upon their Apparent Viscosity.- Rheodynamics and Heat Transfer of Dielectric Suspensions in Constant Electric Fields.- A Study of Transient and Steady-State Shear and Normal Stresses in Glass Fiber Suspensions.- Rheology of Short Fiber Filled Polymers.- Elongational Flow Behavior of Supercooled Polyethylene Melt.- Phase Segregation Influence on Oligomers Rheology.- Rheology and Structure of Polymer Blends Containing Liquid-Crystalline Components in Melt and Solid State.- Stress-Strain Properties of Poly(butyl Methacrylate) in Uniaxial Extension in Liquid Media at Temperatures Above and Below Glass Transition Temperature.- Numerical Simulation of the Flow of Two Non-mixing Inelastic and Viscoelastic Fluids with a Free Interface.- Rheological and Structural Properties of Model Composite Foods.- Rheology of Filled Scleroglucan Gels.- The Relative Viscosity of Dilute Suspensions in Generalized Newtonian Liquids.- Rheological Properties of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals.- Wall Slippage and the Flow of Rubber Compounds in Converging Path.- Characterization of Bread Steeling Process by Means of an Instron Universal Testing Machine Operating in Dynamic Mode.- A Study of Elastic-Viscoplastic Constitutive Equation for Tian-Qing Gel.- Rheological Properties of Xanthan and Xanthan-Galactomannan Gum Mixtures.- Flow of Polymer Solutions through Beds of Solid Particles.- Rheology of Small Samples.- Rheology of Rigid Macromolecules in the Semi-dilute Region.- Viscoelasticity of Polymer Gelation.- Oscillatory Shear Flow of Internal Viscosity Dumbbells: A New Analysis Employing an Expansion in Strain.338.- Transient Stress Responses Predicted by the Internal Viscosity Model in Elongational Flow.- The Effect of Molecular Weight Distribution on the Elongational Properties of Polymers.- Yield Stress Measurements.- A Rheological Study of the Structure of Microemulsions.- Rheology of Human Saliva and Saliva Substitutes.- A Simple Measurement of Elongational Viscosity.- Equilibrium Properties of Reversibly Flocculated Dispersions.- Convergence Studies in the Numerical Simulation of Viscoelastic Melts Using the K-BKZ Model.- Intermittent Shear Flow in Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Rheo-optical Behaviour.- Experimental Determination of Slip Layer Properties in Polymer Solution Flow.- Viscoelastic Properties of a Hexagonal Surfactant Liquid Crystal.- Measurements of the Rheological Properties of Suspensions Based on Viscoelastic Liquids by Means of a Cone-and-Plate- and a Capillary-Rheometer.- Load Enhancement Effects in Loose-Fitting Bearings Caused by the Presence of Polymeric Additives in the Lubricant.- Elastic Recoil Predictions from the Curtiss-Bird Model.- Thought-Experiments in Extensional Flow of Polymer Solutions.- Continuous Time Simulation of Polymer Melts.- Bands Textures in Liquid Crystalline Polymers Subjected to Elongational Flows.- The Flow of a Viscoelastic Fluid Past a Sphere.- The Rheology of Waterborne Metallic Basecoats for the Automotive Industry and its Influence on the Application Properties.- On Some Rheological Effects Arising under Durable Stress of Polymeric Liquids.- Use of Amplitude and Frequency Spectrometry for Determining the Sol-Gel Phase Transition.- The Effect of the Particle Aggregation on the Rheological and Thermal Properties of Sheared Suspensions.- Yield Stress Measurements on Waxy North Sea Crude Oils with Controlled Stress Rheometer and Model Pipeline.- Finite Element Analysis of Shear-Thinning Flow Problems in Mixing Vessels.- Influence of Time Constants on Phase Velocity and Damping Rates of Gravity Waves on Jeffrey Fluids.- Uniaxial Tensile Strength of Polymer Fluids.- The Use of Newtonian Viscosity to Predict Sedimentation Rate in Time-Temperature Monitors.- A New Model for Polymer Melts and Concentrated Solutions.- Dissipative Effects in Rheometric Flows and the Determination of Material Functions of Polymer Melts.- Dynamics of Nematic Solutions of Persistent Macromolecules.- Helical Flow of Power-Law Fluids.- The Test Method of Polymer Melt by the Elongational Deformation.- Rheokinetics, Flow and Convective Heat Transfer of Polymerizing Oligomers.- Unsteady Shear Flows of Viscoelastic Liquids Driven by Periodic Forcing.- Up-Scaling in Heterogeneous Drag Reduction Systems.- The Effects of Co-solvent Levels and Neutralisation on the Rheology of Carbopol Gels.- Linear Viscoelastic Measurements on Lipid Vesicle Dispersions: Hard-Sphere Behaviour and Bilayer Surface Dynamics.- Non-linear Functional Relations and Superposition Principles in Thermorheology.- Thermoforming of Thermoplastics.- Autohesion in the Presence and Absence of Interfacial Mass Transfer.- Time and Shear Stresses Dependence of the Rheological Properties of Hydrolyzed High Molecular Weight Polyacrylamide Solutions in Water-Glycerol Mixtures.- The Digital Viscometer, a New Generation of Rheometers.- 3-D Modeling of the Injection Molding Process.- Three-Dimensional Modeling of Rheologically Complex Fluid Flow in a LPD Dow-Ross Static Mixer.- Three-Dimensional Modelling of Mixing with Helical Ribbon Screw Impeller.- Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow through Small Bifurcations.- Equation of the State of Thixotropic Medium under Mechanical Influences.- The Effect of Chemical Additives on the Drag and Settling Velocities of Yield Stress Slurries.- Induced Ordering in a Colloidal Suspension.- Rheology of Anisotropic Viscoelastic Fluids.- The Nonlinear Strain Measure of Polyisobutylene Melt in General Biaxial Flow and its Comparison to the Doi-Edwards Model.- Finite Element Method for Three-Dimensional Viscoelastic Extrusion.- The Rheology of Waxy Crude Oils — an Overview.- Computer Aided Rheometry.- The Rheology of Adhesive Hard Sphere Dispersions.- Role of the Dynamic Rheological Approach in Kinetorheology.- The Complex of Viscosimeters-Dilatometers for Study of Polymerization Rheokinetics.- Gelatination Rheology of Water-Salt Solutions of Polyvinyl Alcohol).- The Role of Macromoleeule Hydrophobization in Structural-Rheological Properties of Water Solutions of Acrylic Polymers.- Structural-Rheological States and Properties of Polymerizing Vinyl Monomers.- Fibre Spinning with Axial and Radial Viscosity Distributions as Viscoelastic Flow with Dominating Extension.- Secondary Relaxations in Polymers Containing Phenyl Rings.- Study on the Shear Stress and Normal Stress of Foams.- Stress-Orientation Relations in Polymer Fluids.- Late Submissions.- Viscous Fingering of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Porous Media.- Measured Yield Points Instead of Calculating.- Rheology of Associating Polymer Solutions.- Planar Contraction Flow of FENE Dumbbells.- Sudden Strong Strains.- High Deborah Number Flows of Dilute Polymer Solutions.- Dynamic Material Properties of a Closed-Cell Polyethylene Foam.- Investigations of a Closed-Cell Foam with Scanning Electron Microscopy.- Stress Strain Relationship of Small Deformable Bodies under Steady and Unsteady Flow Conditions in Newtonian and Viscoelastic Media.- The Rheological Responses of Dilute Polymers and the Analysis of their Flow Inside and Outside Channels.- Index of Contributors.