Nonlinear phenomena in flows of viscoelastic polymer fluids, by A. I. Leonov and A. N. Prokunin, Chapman & Hall, London 1993,482 pp., £79, ISBN 0-412-58200-7
✍ Scribed by T. Pakula
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-7648
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✦ Synopsis
Colloid science is an old field that is currently going through a stormy renaissance. When students, and also trained experts from other fields, asked for a good, modern textbook they often received the answer "there isn't one". May be this book is a new answer. The two authors are world leading experts in colloid science and trained teachers. Although their different styles are still recognizable, this book provides a compact and straightforward introduction to many topics current of the interesting field. The presentation of the subject is modern and course oriented: each chapter starts with a concept map, presents the topic in dialog style, and ends with exercises and literature. Self-assembly of amphiphiles, mono-and bilayers, surfactant thermodynamics, micelles, forces in colloidal systems and stability, phase formation, micro-