Postgraduate Lectures - Course PY5015: Soft Matter

Lecturer: Dr. Matthias Mobius

• Introduction: What is Soft Matter? Overview of soft materials
• Review of hydrodynamics and stress tensor.
• Origin of viscosity, Stokes drag.
• Colloidal suspensions: Relevant forces between colloids and stability. Flow of dilute suspensions – Einstein formula.
• Rheology of complex fluids: Yield stress, shear thinning, shear thickening. Basic rheology models.
• Granular media and their flow properties:  Bagnold scaling, Pouliquen model.
• Foams and emulsions.