College of Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison

RRC Rheology Research Center

Fall '98

Average Attendance: 39.6

2 9/11 Bahia, UW, Nonlinear Oscillatory Shear of Asphalts
3 9/16* McKinley, MIT, Filament Stretching Rheometry and the Extensional Viscosity of Polymeric Fluids
4 9/18 Baier, UW, TBA
5 9/25 Venerus, IIT, Stress and Birefringence Measurements during the Uniaxial Elongation of Polymer Melts
6 10/2 Moldenaers, U. Leuven, Rheology and Morphology of Immiscible Blends
10/9 Engineer's Day
7 10/16 Lodge, U Minn, Diffusion and Viscoelasticity of Concentrated Polymer Solutions
8 10/23 Slemrod, UW, Constitutive Relations for Rivlin-Ericksen Fluids Based on Generalized Rational Approximation
9 10/30 Schowalter, U Illinois, A Guided Tour through Some Successes and Failures in the Modeling of Dynamics of Concentrated Suspensions
10 11/6 Kasab, UW, The Effect of Kinematics on the Coil-Stretch Transition
11 11/13 Carlson, Lord Corp, Magnetorheological Fluids
12 11/20 Schrag, UW, Do Dilute Solution Polymer Dynamics Studies Probe Dynamic Spatial Heterogeneities in Glass-Forming Solids?
11/26-27 Thanksgiving Recess
13 12/4 Kim, Warner-Lambert, Stochastic Differential Equations and Protein Structure Predictions
14 12/11 Morrison, Michigan Tech, Spurt Flow of Polybutadienes and Polyisoprenes
12/15 Last day of classes

*Jointly with Mechanical Engineering

Spring '98

Average Attendance: 35.9

1 1/30 Shkel, U.W. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Yield Stress
in Structured Electrorheological Suspensions
2 2/6 Escobedo, U.W. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Simulation
of Phase Transitions in Macromolecular Fluids
3 2/10 Cosgrove, Pennsylvania State University, The Rheology of
Growing Plant Cell Walls: Perspectives of a Plant Biologist
4 2/20 Ramanujan, U.W. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Elastic Capsules
in Shear Flow: Effect of Capsule Shape and Viscosity on Deformation
and Behavioral Mode
5 2/27 Tariq, U.W. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nonlinear
Viscoelasticity of Cheese
6 3/6 Walker, Carnegie Mellon University, Wormlike Micelles in
Elongation Flows
7 3/20 Wedgewood, University of Washington, Advances in Vorticity
Decomposition and Network Theories
8 3/27 Shaqfeh, Stanford University, Purely Elastic Instabilities in Bulk
and Interfacial Flows
9 4/3 Black, U.W. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Effect of Wall Slip
on the Stability of Viscoelastic Plane Couette Flow
10 4/24 Yang, U.W. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Dynamics of Particles
with Sharp Corners and Edges in Shear Flow
11 5/1 Baird, Virginia Tech, Extensional Rheology

Fall '97

Average Attendance: 34.3

2 9/12 Lakes, U Iowa, High Damping Viscoelastic Materials
3 9/19 Bell, U Wisconsin, Simulation of Polymeric Fluid Flow
Using Brownian Dynamics and Spectral Methods
4 9/26 Wedgewood, U Washington, Applying Vorticity Decomposition in
Constitutive Theory For Elastic Liquids
5 10/3 Seireg, U Wisconsin, Fluid Film Lubrication
6 10/10 Walters, U Coll of Wales, History of Rheology
7 10/17 Tanner, U Sydney, Rheology and Constitutive Modelling for some
Wheat Doughs
10/20-23 SOR Mtg, Columbus
8 10/24 Moldenaers, U Leuven, Relating Rheology And Morphology In
Immiscible Polymer Blends
9 10/31 Osswald, U Wisconsin, Simulating Polymer Processes
Using The Boundary Element Technique
10 11/7 Armstrong, MIT, Viscoelastic Flow through a Planar, Sudden Contraction
11 11/14 Lodge, U Wisconsin, Viscosity Measurement At Shear Rates
Above 1,000,000 s-1
12 11/21 Zhai, U Wisconsin, Rheology of Asphalt Mastics Using Oscillatory
Shear Measurements
13 12/5 Szeri, UC-Berkeley, New Closure Models For Nonlinear Rheology
14 12/12 Zauscher, U Wisconsin, The Effect Of Added Polymers
On The Macro- And Micro-Rheology Of Pulp Fiber Suspensions

Spring '97

Average Attendance: 38.6

2 1/24 Yarin, The Technion, Strong Flows of Polymeric Liquids
1 1/31 Wang, Case Western, Molecular Mechanisms of Melt Flow Instability
3 2/7 Macosko, U. Minnesota, Microlayer Polymer Structures via Melt Processing
4 2/14 Khare, U. Wisconsin, Rheology of Confined Polymer Melts
Followed by Executive Committee Meeting
5 2/21 Mustakis, U. Wisconsin, Microhydrodynamics of Sharp Edges & Corners
6 2/28 Fuller, Stanford, Optical Rheometry of Complex Fluid Interfaces
7 3/7 Secor, 3M, Viscoelastic Flow Instabilities in Coating Applications
* 3/12 Mead, U. Michigan, Molecular Structure and Linear Viscoelasticity
8 3/14 Graham, U. Wisconsin, Polymer Melt Flow Instabilities
9 3/21 Johnson, U. Wisconsin, Elasticity and Viscoelasticity of Paper
3/28 Spring Recess (No Seminar)
10 4/4 Dohner, Alza Corp, Polymeric Film Processing Techniques
in a Therapeutic Systems Company
11 4/11 Gunasekaran, U. Wisconsin, Rheology of Cheese
12 4/18 Manas-Zloczower, Case Western, Mixing in Polymer Processing
13 4/25 Karjala, Dow, On-line Rheology
14 5/1 Beers, U. Wisconsin, Diffusion Controlled Kinetics of LC Polymerization
15 5/9 Venkataramanan, U. Wisconsin, Characterization in Elongational Flows
16 5/16 Hetsroni, Technion, Two Phase Turbulence and Heat Transfer
17 5/23 Weiss, ESPCI (Paris), TBA

* Jointly with Mechanical Engineering

Fall '96

Average Attendance: 30.9

1 9/6 Yosick, U Wisconsin, Rheological Models for Both Shear and Extension
Followed by Executive Committee Meeting
2 9/13Park, KAIST, Rheology of Polymer Blends
3 9/20Ray, U Wisconsin, Polymerization Reaction Engineering
4 9/27Sentmanat, Goodyear, Rheology of Highly-Filled Elastomers
5 10/4 Bernstein, Illinois Institute of Technol, Polymer Pulverization
6 10/11Malkus, U Wisconsin, Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear
7 10/18Subbiah, Fluent, Challenges in Modeling Complex Rheology
8 10/25van Egmond, U Mass, Rheology of Micelle Solutions
9 11/1 Klingenberg, U Wisconsin, Polymer Electrostriction
10 11/8 Chambon, Exxon, Film Casting Experiments
11 11/15Winter, U Mass, Conoscopy and Shear Induced Rotation of LC
12 11/22Perchak, Kodak, Stokesian Dynamics of Interacting Particle Systems
13 12/6 Rawlings, U Wisconsin, Film Casting Control
14 12/13Pakdel, Aspen Technol, Scaling of Elastic Flow Instabilities

Spring '96

Average Attendance: 42.5

1 1/26 Executive Committee Meeting (No Seminar)
2 2/2 Thole, Univ. of Wisconsin, Jet Injection for Turbine Blade Cooling
3 2/9 Karayianni, Univ. of Wisconsin, Ionomer Solution Rheology
4 2/16 Bike, Univ. of Michigan, Dispersion Rheology
5 2/23 Hill, Notre Dame, Diffusion In Entangled Polymer Melts
6 3/1 Rey, McGill, Liquid Crystal Polymer Rheology
7 3/8 Nealey, Univ. of Wisconsin, Non-Fickian Diffusion in Glassy Polymers
8 3/22 Berker, 3M, Viscoelastic Effects In Journal Bearing Flows
9 3/29 Bird, Univ. of Wisconsin, Multicomponent Diffusion in Polymeric Liquids
11 4/19 Prud'homme, Princeton, Rheology and Structure of Biopolymer Gels
12 4/26 Mitsoulis, Univ. of Ottawa, Numerical Modeling of Viscoelastic Fluids
13 5/3 Schieber, IIT, Nonisothermal CONNFFESSIT Flow Calculations
14 5/10 Kurtz, Union Carbide, Flow Instabilities and Melt Fracture


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