Processes (Journal)

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Guest Editor for Special Issue "Recent Advances in Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows and Pumping of Concrete".

Non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, and materials processing are inexorably intertwined. Interest in paints, plastics, ceramic pastes, lubricants, and other industrial fluids led to the founding of the Society of Rheology in December 1929. Flow is essential to characterizing many rheological properties of a fluid and is also ubiquitous in materials processing, manufacturing, and product development.

This Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows and Pumping of Concrete” seeks high-quality research or review articles focusing on non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, and the materials processing of yield-stress fluids. Yield-stress fluids are encountered in a wide range of applications: the pumping of concrete and mortar, 3D concrete printing, the handling of drilling fluids, sludge treatment and disposal, oil-well cementing, filling slurry, toothpaste, foam, mud, mayonnaise, etc. Among them, concrete is used more than any other man-made material in the world and is irreplaceable for innumerable large infrastructure developments. The pumping of concrete is one of the most common practices in the field of construction and is a common step in digital fabrication techniques with concrete and other cementitious materials, such as 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP). However, a fundamental understanding of the interrelations of non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, and the processing of concrete and other similar fluids remains an active area of research.

Period	Sept 2022 → Sept 2023
Type of journal	Journal