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The shear viscosity is an important property of a Newtonian fluid, defined in terms of the force required to shear or produce relative motion between parallel planes [97]. An analogous two-dimensional surface shear viscosity ij is defined as follows. If two line elements in a surface (corresponding to two area elements in three dimensions) are to be moved relative to each other with a velocity gradient dvfdx, the required force is... 

Polymers owe much of their attractiveness to their ease of processing. In many important teclmiques, such as injection moulding, fibre spinning and film fonnation, polymers are processed in the melt, so that their flow behaviour is of paramount importance. Because of the viscoelastic properties of polymers, their flow behaviour is much more complex than that of Newtonian liquids for which the viscosity is the only essential parameter. In polymer melts, the recoverable shear compliance, which relates to the elastic forces, is used in addition to the viscosity in the description of flow [48]. 

Flow behaviour of polymer melts is still difficult to predict in detail. Here, we only mention two aspects. The viscosity of a polymer melt decreases with increasing shear rate. This phenomenon is called shear thinning [48]. Another particularity of the flow of non-Newtonian liquids is the appearance of stress nonnal to the shear direction [48]. This type of stress is responsible for the expansion of a polymer melt at the exit of a tube that it was forced tlirough. Shear thinning and nonnal stress are both due to the change of the chain confonnation under large shear. On the one hand, the compressed coil cross section leads to a smaller viscosity. On the other hand, when the stress is released, as for example at the exit of a tube, the coils fold back to their isotropic confonnation and, thus, give rise to the lateral expansion of the melt. 

P. Ulrich, W. Scott, W.F. van Gunsteren and A. Torda, Protein structure prediction force 6elds parametrization with quasi Newtonian dynamics. Proteins 27 (1997), 367-384. 

Since the stochastic Langevin force mimics collisions among solvent molecules and the biomolecule (the solute), the characteristic vibrational frequencies of a molecule in vacuum are dampened. In particular, the low-frequency vibrational modes are overdamped, and various correlation functions are smoothed (see Case [35] for a review and further references). The magnitude of such disturbances with respect to Newtonian behavior depends on 7, as can be seen from Fig. 8 showing computed spectral densities of the protein BPTI for three 7 values. Overall, this effect can certainly alter the dynamics of a system, and it remains to study these consequences in connection with biomolecular dynamics. 

Similarly in the absence of body forces the Stokes flow equations for a generalized Newtonian fluid in a two-dimensional (r, 8) coordinate system are written as... 

The dawn of the nineteenth century saw a drastic shift from the dominance of French chemistry to first English-, and, later, German-influenced chemistry. Lavoisier s dualistic views of chemical composition and his explanation of combustion and acidity were landmarks but hardly made chemistry an exact science. Chemistry remained in the nineteenth century basically qualitative in its nature. Despite the Newtonian dream of quantifying the forces of attraction between chemical substances and compiling a table of chemical affinity, no quantitative generalization emerged. It was Dalton s chemical atomic theory and the laws of chemical combination explained by it that made chemistry an exact science. 

The dynamic viscosity, or coefficient of viscosity, 77 of a Newtonian fluid is defined as the force per unit area necessary to maintain a unit velocity gradient at right angles to the direction of flow between two parallel planes a unit distance apart. The SI unit is pascal-second or newton-second per meter squared [N s m ]. The c.g.s. unit of viscosity is the poise [P] 1 cP = 1 mN s m . The dynamic viscosity decreases with the temperature approximately according to the equation log rj = A + BIT. Values of A and B for a large number of liquids are given by Barrer, Trans. Faraday Soc. 39 48 (1943). 

Newtonian behavior the rate of shear is small compared to the rate constant for the flow process. When molecular displacements occur very much faster than the rate of shear (7 < kj ), the molecules show maximum efficiency in dissipating the applied forces. When the molecules cannot move fast enough to keep pace with the external forces, they couple with and dissipate those forces to a lesser extent. Thus there is a decrease in viscosity from its upper, Newtonian limit with increasing 7/kj. The rate constant for the flow process is therefore seen to define a standard against which the rate of shear is to be judged large or small. In the next section we shall consider a molecular model in terms of which this rate constant can be analyzed. 

Basically, Newtonian mechanics worked well for problems involving terrestrial and even celestial bodies, providing rational and quantifiable relationships between mass, velocity, acceleration, and force. However, in the realm of optics and electricity, numerous observations seemed to defy Newtonian laws. Phenomena such as diffraction and interference could only be explained if light had both particle and wave properties. Indeed, particles such as electrons and x-rays appeared to have both discrete energy states and momentum, properties similar to those of light. None of the classical, or Newtonian, laws could account for such behavior, and such inadequacies led scientists to search for new concepts in the consideration of the nature of reahty. 

Molecula.rMecha.nics. Molecular mechanics (MM), or empirical force field methods (EFF), ate so called because they are a model based on equations from Newtonian mechanics. This model assumes that atoms are hard spheres attached by networks of springs, with discrete force constants. 

Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations. At the heart of the method of molecular dynamics is a simulation model consisting of potential energy functions, or force fields. Molecular dynamics calculations represent a deterministic method, ie, one based on the assumption that atoms move according to laws of Newtonian mechanics. Molecular dynamics simulations can be performed for short time-periods, eg, 50—100 picoseconds, to examine localized very high frequency motions, such as bond length distortions, or, over much longer periods of time, eg, 500—2000 ps, in order to derive equiUbrium properties. It is worthwhile to summarize what properties researchers can expect to evaluate by performing molecular simulations ... 

Gla.ss Ca.pilla.ry Viscometers. The glass capillary viscometer is widely used to measure the viscosity of Newtonian fluids. The driving force is usually the hydrostatic head of the test Hquid. Kinematic viscosity is measured directly, and most of the viscometers are limited to low viscosity fluids, ca 0.4—16,000 mm /s. However, external pressure can be appHed to many glass viscometers to increase the range of measurement and enable the study of non-Newtonian behavior. Glass capillary viscometers are low shear stress instmments 1—15 Pa or 10—150 dyn/cm if operated by gravity only. The rate of shear can be as high as 20,000 based on a 200—800 s efflux time. 

Falling ball viscometers are based on Stokes law, which relates the viscosity of a Newtonian fluid to the velocity of the falling sphere. If a sphere is allowed to fall freely through a fluid, it accelerates until the viscous force is exactly the same as the gravitational force. The Stokes equation relating viscosity to the fall of a soHd body through a Hquid may be written as equation 34, where ris the radius of the sphere and d are the density of the sphere and the hquid, respectively g is the gravitational force and p is the velocity of the sphere. 

The traditional view of emulsion stability (1,2) was concerned with systems of two isotropic, Newtonian Hquids of which one is dispersed in the other in the form of spherical droplets. The stabilization of such a system was achieved by adsorbed amphiphiles, which modify interfacial properties and to some extent the colloidal forces across a thin Hquid film, after the hydrodynamic conditions of the latter had been taken into consideration. However, a large number of emulsions, in fact, contain more than two phases. The importance of the third phase was recognized early (3) and the lUPAC definition of an emulsion included a third phase (4). With this relation in mind, this article deals with two-phase emulsions as an introduction. These systems are useful in discussing the details of formation and destabilization, because of their relative simplicity. The subsequent treatment focuses on three-phase emulsions, outlining three special cases. The presence of the third phase is shown in order to monitor the properties of the emulsion in a significant manner. 

A flowing fluid is acted upon by many forces that result in changes in pressure, temperature, stress, and strain. A fluid is said to be isotropic when the relations between the components of stress and those of the rate of strain are the same in all directions. The fluid is said to be Newtonian when this relationship is linear. These pressures and temperatures must be fully understood so that the entire flow picture can be described. 

An alternative method, proposed by Andersen [23], shows that the coupling to the heat bath is represented by stochastic impulsive forces that act occasionally on randomly selected particles. Between stochastic collisions, the system evolves at constant energy according to the normal Newtonian laws of motion. The stochastic collisions ensure that all accessible constant-energy shells are visited according to their Boltzmann weight and therefore yield a canonical ensemble. 

The externaiiy appiied periodic force has a frequency lu, which can vary independentiy of the system parameters. The motion equation for this system may be obtained by any of the previousiy stated methods. The Newtonian approach wiii be used here because of its conceptuai simpiicity. The freebody diagram of the mass m is shown in Figure 5-ii. 

Consider a cake of moulding resin between the compression platens as shown in Fig. 4.63. When a constant force, F, is applied to the upper platen the resin flows as a result of a pressure gradient. If the flow is assumed Newtonian then the pressure flow equation derived in Section 4.2.3 may be used... 

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