Progress and Trends in Rheology II

Invited Papers.- Some basic principles in the thermorheology of heterogeneous materials.- Some remarks on the stability of extensional flows.- On the structure of turbulent flow of drag reducing fluids.- Rheology of liquid crystalline polymers.- Phenomenological rheology of thixotropic liquids: a contribution to the needs of engineering science.- Rheology of oligomer curing.- Recent progress in understanding rubber processing through a rheological approach.- Rheological evaluation of the textural properties of foods.- Hemorheology: from theory to clinical practice.- Contributed Papers (Short Versions).- Tensorial generalization of uniaxial constitutive relations.- The application of real-order derivatives in linear viscoelasticity.- Rheological applications of the electrical-mechanical analogy.- Mechanics of continuous media with interfaces.- Micromechanics of rheological processes in heterogeneous solids.- Three kinds of shear asymmetry in rheological bodies.- On the concept of volume viscosity.- A new method of classifying rheological curves.- Non-linear theory of stress-optical relations in polymer fluids.- The influence of hydrodynamic interaction on the constitutive equation of the elastic dumbbell model.- The consistently averaged hydrodynamic interaction: a numerical investigation of long chains in steady shear flow.- A conformation model for polymer solutions.- Stability of conformations of polyelectrolytes in flows and electric fields.- Non-Markovian dynamics of macromolecules and viscoelastic phenomena in linear polymers.- Some comments on reptation theories.- A few remarks on rheological constitutive equations of the network-rupture type.- The fractal concept in the rheology of concentrated suspensions.- Temperature dependence of characteristic times in rheological models of concentrated suspensions.- Thermorheological properties of dispersions with solid-liquid transition of one component.- On the propagation of temperature with finite wave speed in