Polymeric fluids, kinetic theories

William Russel May I follow up on that and sharpen the issue a bit In the complex fluids that we have talked about, three types of nonequilibrium phenomena are important. First, phase transitions may have dynamics on the time scale of the process, as mentioned by Matt Tirrell. Second, a fluid may be at equilibrium at rest but is displaced from equilibrium by flow, which is the origin of non-Newtonian behavior in polymeric and colloidal fluids. And third, the resting state itself may be far from equilibrium, as for a glass or a gel. At present, computer simulations can address all three, but only partially. Statistical mechanical or kinetic theories have something to say about the first two, but the dynamics and the structure and transport properties of the nonequilibrium states remain poorly understood, except for the polymeric fluids. 

RB Bird, RA Armstrong, O Hassager. Dynamics of Fluid Polymeric Liquids, Vol II, Kinetic Theory. 2nd ed. New York Wiley, 1987. 

Bird, B.B. Curtiss, C.R Armstrong, R.C. Hassager, O., Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Vol. 1, Fluid Mechanics Vol. 2, Kinetic Theory. Wiley Chichester, 1987. 

H. Baur Thermophysics of Polymers, Springer, 1999 R.B. Bird, R.C. Armstrong, O. Hassager Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids Vol. 1 Fluid Mechanics, John Wiley Sons, 1977 R.B. Bird, R.C. Armstrong, O. Hassager Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids Vol. 2 Kinetic Theory, John Wiley Sons, 1977... 

Bird, R. B., R. C. Armstrong and O. Hassager, Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids , 2nd edn., Wiley, New York, 1987. In two volumes fluid mechanics and kinetic theory. 

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