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Rheology of Complex Fluids Abhijit P. Deshpande J. Murali Krishnan P. B. Sunil Kumar Editors Rheology of Complex Fluids A BC Editors Abhijit P. Deshpande P. B. Sunil Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Physics Chennai 600036 Chennai 600036 India India abhijit@iitm.ac.in sunil@physics.iitm.ac.in J. Murali Krishnan Indian Institute of Technology Madras Department of Civil Engineering Chennai 600036 India jmk@iitm.ac.in ISBN 978-1-4419-6493-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6494-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6494-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 座机电话号码20 ? Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA , except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identi?ed as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media Preface In complex ?uids, the atoms and molecules are organized in a hierarchy of structures from nanoscopic to mesoscopic scales, which in turn make up the bulk material. Consideration of these intermediate scales of organization is essential to understand the behaviour of the complex ?uids. These ?uids, an important part of what is gen- erally called soft matter, have very complex rheological res