MAM0620 - CURRENT TRENDS IN RHEOLOGY

Module Identifier	MAM0620
Module Title	CURRENT TRENDS IN RHEOLOGY
Academic Year	2001/2002
Co-ordinator	Professor Arthur Davies
Semester	Semester 2
Course delivery	Lecture	10 x 1 hour lectures
	Workshop	2 day symposium
Assessment	Report	Written report of the symposium.	50%
	Report	Summary written report of the intensive lecture course.	50%
	Resit assessment	Marks for components passed in the semester assessments are carried forward; reports for failed components must be resubmitted; the weighting of components is the same as for the semester assessments.	100%

General description

This module comprises two components. The first part is attendance at a symposium on a topic of industrial rheology. These are organised on a regular basis by the University of Wales Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. This will expose students to problems of current interest in industrial rheology. The second component is an intensive course of lectures on a subject in contemporary rheology such as micro-macro constitutive modeling, stochastic simulation and the modelling of branched polymers. These lectures will be given by an invited European authority on the subject.

Aims

This module will introduce students to problems of current interest to the industrial rheologist.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

describe problems of current interest in one area of industrial rheology.
summarise the industrial interest and the issues involved in this area.
highlight outstanding problems in industrial rheology giving explanations on why they need to be resolved.
describe the scientific developments in an area of contemporary rheology.

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
R. I. Tanner. (2000) Engineering rheology. 2nd. Oxford University Press 0198564732