Ann Rev Fl Mech: “Designing Complex Fluids”

How can non-Newtonian properties be useful?
What properties are needed?
How can we get those properties?

Rheological complexity facilitates engineering designs across a remarkable range of applications, including human health, energy, the environment, manufacturing, food, robotics, and beyond. Our review identifies organizing principles and emergent methods that enable design of these complex properties to enable future technological advances in such things as advanced flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage, improved fire suppressants for wildfires, and new materials for advanced additive manufacturing.

We review current state of knowledge here:

Ewoldt, R. H., and C. Saengow
“Designing complex fluids,”
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 54, 413-441 (2022). DOI link