Viscosity of Liquids : Theory, Estimation, Experiment, and Data

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 GENERAL INFORMATION; 1.2 VISCOSITY UNITS AND CONVERSION; 1.3 FLUID FLOW AND VISCOSITY; 2. VISCOMETERS; 2.1 CAPILLARY VISCOMETER; 2.2 ORIFICE VISCOMETERS; 2.3 HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH SHEAR RATE VISCOMETERS; 2.4 ROTATIONAL VISCOMETERS; 2.5 FALLING BALL VISCOMETERS; 2.6 VIBRATIONAL VISCOMETERS; 2.7 ULTRASONIC VISCOMETERS; 2.8 SUMMARY; 3. THEORIES OF VISCOSITY; 3.1 THEORIES OF GAS VISCOSITY; 3.2 THEORIES OF DENSE-GAS VISCOSITY; 3.3 GAS AND LIQUID VISCOSITY THEORIES; 3.4 PURE-LIQUID VISCOSITY THEORIES; 3.5 SUMMARY; 4. CORRELATIONS AND ESTIMATION OF PURE LIQUID VISCOSITY; 4.1 EFFECT OF PRESSURE ON VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; 4.2 VISCOSITY AT SELECTED REFERENCE POINTS; 4.3 EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; 4.4 COMPARISON OF SELECTED PREDICTION METHODS; 4.5 SUMMARY; 5. VISCOSITIES OF SOLUTIONS AND MIXTURES; 5.1 VISCOSITIES OF SOLUTIONS; 5.2 VISCOSITIES OF FLUID MIXTURES; 5.3 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NET APPROACH FOR POLAR LIQUID MIXTURES; 5.4 LIQUID MIXTURE VISCOSITIES BY EMPIRICAL METHODS; 5.5 VISCOSITIES OF HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES (COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS, SUSPENSIONS, EMULSIONS); 5.6 VISCOSITIES OF EMULSIONS FORMED BY IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS; 5.7 SUMMARY; 6. EXPERIMENTAL DATA; 6.1 EXPERIMENTAL DATA FOR ABSOLUTE VISCOSITY; 6.2 KINEMATIC VISCOSITY DATA TABLES; INDEX; Subject Index; Compound Index: Experimental Data for Absoulute Viscosity; Compound Index: Experimental Data for Kinematic Viscosity.