Robert C. Armstrong
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American professor of chemical engineering at MIT
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Calvin Armstrong is the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering. He has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1973, and served as head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2007. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for conducting outstanding research on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, co-authoring landmark textbooks, and providing leadership in chemical engineering education. In 2020, he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Robert C. Armstrong's Published Works
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- Dynamics of polymeric liquids: Fluid mechanics (1987) (1199)
- A constitutive equation for concentrated suspensions that accounts for shear‐induced particle migration (1992) (871)
- Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Volume 1: Fluid Mechanics (1987) (682)
- From text to speech: the MITalk system (1987) (590)
- Shear flow properties of concentrated solutions of linear and star branched polystyrenes (1981) (560)
- A Rheological Equation of State for Semiconcentrated Fiber Suspensions (1984) (424)
- Creeping motion of a sphere through a Bingham plastic (1985) (405)
- Finite element methdos for calculation of steady, viscoelastic flow using constitutive equations with a Newtonian viscosity (1990) (323)
- Dynamics of polymeric liquids: Kinetic theory (1987) (311)
- The frontiers of energy (2016) (223)
- Foam Rheology: III. Measurement of Shear Flow Properties (1988) (191)
- Nonlinear dynamics of viscoelastic flow in axisymmetric abrupt contractions (1991) (180)
- Modeling the rheology of polyisobutylene solutions (1990) (172)
- Viscoelastic flow of polymer solutions around a periodic, linear array of cylinders: comparisons of predictions for microstructure and flow fields (1998) (171)
- Numerically stable finite element techniques for viscoelastic calculations in smooth and singular geometries (1988) (166)
- The wake instability in viscoelastic flow past confined circular cylinders (1993) (156)
- Observations on the elastic instability in cone-and-plate and parallel-plate flows of a polyisobutylene Boger fluid (1991) (137)
- Finite element method for viscoelastic flows based on the discrete adaptive viscoelastic stress splitting and the discontinuous Galerkin method : DAVSS-G/DG (1999) (130)
- Traveling waves on vertical films: Numerical analysis using the finite element method (1994) (129)
- Birefringence and laser-Doppler velocimetry (LDV) studies of viscoelastic flow through a planar contraction (1994) (128)
- Kinetic theory and rheology of dilute, nonhomogeneous polymer solutions (1991) (117)
- Finite element analysis of steady viscoelastic flow around a sphere in a tube: calculations with constant viscosity models (1993) (112)
- Approximation error in finite element calculation of viscoelastic fluid flows (1982) (106)
- Use of coupled birefringence and LDV studies of flow through a planar contraction to test constitutive equations for concentrated polymer solutions (1995) (102)
- A new mixed finite element method for viscoelastic flows governed by differential constitutive equations (1995) (102)
- Calculation of steady-state viscoelastic flow through axisymmetric contractions with the EEME formulation (1992) (98)
- Rheology of foams: I. Theory for dry foams (1986) (98)
- Spectral/finite-element calculations of the flow of a Maxwell fluid between eccentric rotating cylinders (1987) (87)
- Dynamics of polymeric liquids. Volume 2: Kinetic Theory By R. Ryron Bird, Charles F. Curtis, Robert C. Armstrong, and Ole Hassager, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2nd Ed., 1987, 437 + xxi pp. (1989) (87)
- On the numerical stability of mixed finite-element methods for viscoelastic flows governed by differential constitutive equations (1993) (85)
- The roles of inertia and shear-thinning in flow of an inelastic liquid through an axisymmetric sudden contraction (1983) (84)
- Linear stability and dynamics of viscoelastic flows using time-dependent numerical simulations (1999) (80)
- Models for Gasless Combustion in Layered Materials and Random Media (1990) (79)
- Laser doppler velocimetry measurements of velocity fields and transitions in viscoelastic fluids (1986) (76)
- A constitutive equation for liquid‐crystalline polymer solutions (1993) (74)
- Impact of the constitutive equation and singularity on the calculation of stick-slip flow: The modified upper-convected maxwell model (MUCM) (1988) (72)
- Finite element calculation of viscoelastic flow in a journal bearing: I. small eccentricities (1984) (72)
- Perturbation theory for viscoelastic fluids between eccentric rotating cylinders (1983) (67)
- Shear Flow Properties of Semiconcentrated Fiber Suspensions (1985) (66)
- Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Vols. 1 and 2 (1978) (63)
- MOLECULAR ORIENTATION EFFECTS IN VISCOELASTICITY (2003) (60)
- Calculations of viscoelastic flow through an axisymmetric corrugated tube using the explicitly elliptic momentum equation formulation (EEME) (1989) (54)
- Highly parallel time integration of viscoelastic flows (2001) (54)
- Finite-amplitude time-periodic states in viscoelastic taylor-couette flow described by the UCM model (1992) (52)
- Deficiencies of FENE dumbbell models in describing the rapid stretching of dilute polymer solutions (2001) (50)
- Finite element analysis of stability of two-dimensional viscoelastic flows to three-dimensional perturbations (2000) (49)
- Two-dimensional numerical analysis of non-isothermal melt spinning with and without phase transition (2002) (49)
- Rheology of foams: II. Effects of polydispersity and liquid viscosity for foams having gas fraction approaching unity (1987) (46)
- Influences of two-phase flow in the deflagration of homogeneous solids☆ (1987) (46)
- Finite element calculation of viscoelastic flow in a journal bearing: II. Moderate eccentricity (1986) (44)
- Dynamics of polymeric liquids. Vol. 1, 2nd Ed. : Fluid mechanics (1987) (44)
- The origin of polymer migration in a nonhomogeneous flow field (1982) (42)
- Laser Doppler velocimetry measurements of particle velocity fluctuations in a concentrated suspension (2002) (41)
- Evaluation of particle migration models based on laser Doppler velocimetry measurements in concentrated suspensions (2004) (40)
- Kinetic theory and rheology of dilute solutions of flexible macromolecules. I. Steady state behavior (1974) (39)
- Time‐Dependent Flows of Dilute Solutions of Rodlike Macromolecules (1972) (39)
- Microstructural Rearrangements and their Rheological Implications in a Model Thixotropic Elastoviscoplastic Fluid. (2016) (38)
- Multiple solutions in the calculation of axisymmetric contraction flow of an upper convected maxwell fluid (1984) (38)
- Rheological properties of thermoplastic starch and starch/poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) blends☆ (1995) (38)
- The rotation of a suspended axisymmetric ellipsoid in a magnetic field (1987) (36)
- Galerkin finite element analysis of complex viscoelastic flows (1986) (36)
- Linear stability analysis of flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a linear array of cylinders (2003) (36)
- Fluid mechanics and heat transfer (1983) (36)
- Calculation of steady viscoelastic flow using a multimode Maxwell model : application of the explicitly elliptic momentum equation (EEME) formulation (1990) (36)
- Two Asymptotic Models for Solid Propellant Combustion (1986) (35)
- Comparison of numerical simulations and birefringence measurements in viscoelastic flow between eccentric rotating cylinders (1992) (34)
- Non‐isothermal channel flow of non‐Newtonian fluids with viscous heating (1982) (32)
- The influence of viscoelasticity on the existence of steady solutions in two-dimensional rimming flow (1992) (32)
- A new model for dilute polymer solutions in flows with strong extensional components (2002) (31)
- Finite element calculation of time-dependent two-dimensional viscoelastic flow with the explicitly elliptic momentum equation formulation (1990) (30)
- LDV measurements of viscoelastic flow transitions in abrupt axisymmetric contractions: Interaction of inertia and elasticity (1989) (29)
- The role of surface tension in the dominant balance in the die swell singularity (1995) (28)
- Analysis of isothermal spinning of liquid‐crystalline polymers (1993) (28)
- Conformational changes of macromolecules in transient elongational flow (1980) (27)
- Multiscale Nature of Thixotropy and Rheological Hysteresis in Attractive Colloidal Suspensions under Shear. (2019) (22)
- Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flow of Polymer Solutions. (1975) (20)
- Stress tensor for arbitrary flows of dilute solutions of rodlike macromolecules (1973) (20)
- Turbulence induced change in the conformation of polymer molecules (1983) (19)
- A self-consistent theoretical approach to polymer induced turbulent drag reduction (1984) (19)
- Crystal shapes and crystallization in continuum modeling (2005) (18)
- Time-rate-transformation framework for targeted assembly of short-range attractive colloidal suspensions (2019) (17)
- Comparison of computational efficiency of flow simulations with multimode constitutive equations: integral and differential models (1993) (17)
- Measurement of Velocity and Stress Fields in Complex Polymer Flows (1992) (16)
- Observations on the eigenspectrum of the linearized Doi equation with application to numerical simulations of liquid crystal suspensions. (2004) (16)
- Irradiation-modification of starch-containing thermoplastic blends. I. Modification of properties and microstructure (1996) (15)
- A wavelet-Galerkin method for simulating the Doi model with orientation-dependent rotational diffusivity (2003) (15)
- Hydrodynamic and reactive/diffusive instabilities in a dynamic model of liquid propellant combustion. II. Inviscid fluid motions☆ (1989) (14)
- Local similarity solutions for the stress field of an Oldroyd-B fluid in the partial-slip/slip flow (1997) (14)
- Local similarity solutions in the presence of a slip boundary condition (1997) (12)
- Injection and suction of an upper-convected maxwell fluid through a porous-walled tube (1988) (12)
- Second order sharp-interface and thin-interface asymptotic analyses and error minimization for phase-field descriptions of two-sided dilute binary alloy solidification (2006) (12)
- Hydrodynamic and reactive/diffusive instabilities in a dynamic model of liquid propellant combustion (1989) (11)
- Transitions to nematic states in homogeneous suspensions of high aspect ratio magnetic rods (2005) (11)
- Rheology of Foams IV. Effect of Gas Volume Fraction (1989) (11)
- A Rheological Equation of State for Dilute Solutions of Nearly‐Hookean Dumbbells (1980) (11)
- Experimental studies of suspended ferromagnetic fibers in a magnetic field (1987) (10)
- Computation of the nonhomogeneous equilibrium states of a rigid-rod solution. (2006) (8)
- Kinetic theory and rheology of dilute solutions of flexible macromolecules. II. Linear viscoelasticity (1974) (8)
- Nonhomogeneous shear flow in concentrated liquid-crystalline solutions (2007) (8)
- Kinetic theory and rheology of dilute polymer solutions (1974) (8)
- Limitation on the use of the retarded motion expansion (1990) (8)
- Comparison of measured centerplane stress and velocity fields with predictions of viscoelastic constitutive models (2003) (7)
- Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Volume 2: Kinetic Theory, 2nd Edition (1987) (6)
- Analysis of Experimental Data for Polystyrene Orientation during Stress Relaxation Using Semigrand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation (2002) (6)
- FICOM: a framework for incremental consistency maintenance in multi-representation, structural VLSI databases (1992) (6)
- Rheological phase diagrams for nonhomogeneous flows of rodlike liquid crystalline polymers (2009) (5)
- EVALUATION OF CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS: MATERIAL FUNCTIONS AND COMPLEX FLOWS OF VISCOELASTIC FLUIDS (1985) (5)
- R. Byron Bird: The integration of transport phenomena into chemical engineering (2014) (5)
- A theoretical and numerical study of radiative ignition and deradiative extinction in solid propellants (1988) (5)
- Irradiation‐modification of starch‐containing thermoplastic blends. II. Rheological studies (1996) (5)
- Initial stage of spinodal decomposition in a rigid-rod system. (2007) (4)
- Relationship between rheological properties and impact strength in high impact polystyrene (1982) (4)
- Systems analysis of hybrid, multi-scale complex flow simulations using Newton-GMRES (2012) (4)
- A Viscoelastic Flow Instability in the Wake of a Confined Circular Cylinder (1992) (4)
- Chemical shift tensors for the aromatic carbons in polystyrene (2002) (3)
- Nonhomogeneous propellants as random media (1987) (3)
- Analysis of complex viscoelastic flows using a finite element method (2006) (3)
- A study of polymer conformation in turbulent flow (1982) (3)
- Polymer conformation in an extensional flow with bead-wall hydrodynamic interaction (1988) (3)
- Adsorbed polymers under flow. A stochastic dynamical system approach (1985) (3)
- Ethical Issues Facing Tax Professionals: A Comparative Survey of Tax Agents and Big 5 Tax Practitioners in Australia By (2005) (3)
- Orientation Relaxation in Sheared Polystyrene Melts Measured by 13C SMAS-DECODER NMR (2001) (3)
- Papers from the third international workshop on numerical simulation of viscoelastic flows (1984) (3)
- Using Newton-GMRES for viscoelastic flow time-steppers (2008) (2)
- MODIFICATION OF INERTIAL FILM INSTABILITY BY VISCOELASTICITY (1992) (2)
- Cell mass concentration variance resulting from fluctuations in the incoming nutrient concentration to a chemostat (1985) (2)
- On the stability criteria of the Kirkwood–Riseman diffusion tensor (1981) (2)
- Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior (1996) (2)
- A formal approach to incremental consistency maintenance in multirepresentation VLSI databases (1992) (1)
- INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY MACROMOLECULAR DIVISION COMMISSION ON POLYMER CHARACTERIZATION AND PROPERTIES WORKING PARTY ON STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF COMMERCIAL POLYMERS * CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS FROM GAUSSIAN MOLECULAR NETWORK THEORIES IN POLYMER RHEOLOGY (2006) (1)
- Spinodal decomposition and nematic coarsening in a rigid-rod solution (2009) (1)
- Modification of solid propellant deflagration rates due to random nonhomogeneities (1988) (0)
- Resolvent operator method for solving rheological equations of state (1985) (0)
- 2.5.12 SINGLE PHASE CONVECITVE HEAT TRANSFER: HEAT TRANSFER FOR NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS (2000) (0)
- Dynamics of propellant ignition (1987) (0)
- Educating and Inspiring Young People for the Next Generation of Exploration (2007) (0)
- Why We Explore: The Value of Space Exploration for Future Generations (2007) (0)
- Acknowledgment to reviewers (1996) (0)
- Viscoelastic flow transitions in abrupt planar contractions (2011) (0)
- Progress in optical diagnostic development for the electro-thermal chemical program (1993) (0)
- Invited Papers on Transport Phenomena in Celebration of Professor Robert Byron Bird’s 95th Birthday (2019) (0)
- Turbulence of a non-Newtonian fluid (1989) (0)
- STEM Education Efforts in the Ares Projects (2010) (0)
- 2.2.8 SINGLE PHASE FLUID FLOW: NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS (2000) (0)
- Phase Transitions of a Rigid-Rod Solution in a Thin Slit (2010) (0)
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