Advances in Experimental and Computational Rheology Edited by Maria Teresa Cidade and João Miguel Nóbrega Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Fluids www.mdpi.com/journal/fluids Advances in Experimental and Computational Rheology Advances in Experimental and Computational Rheology Special Issue Editors Maria Teresa Cidade Jo˜ao Miguel N´obrega MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade Special Issue Editors Maria Teresa Cidade Jo˜ao Miguel Nobrega´ Universidade Nova de Lisboa University of Minho Portugal Portugal Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521) from 2018 to 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fluids/special issues/advances rheology) For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03921-333-7 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03921-334-4 (PDF) c 2019 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editors ..................................... vii Maria Teresa Cidade and Jo˜ao Miguel N´obrega Editorial for Special Issue “Advances in Experimental and Computational Rheology” Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 131, doi:10.3390/fluids4030131 .................... 1 Miguel A. Delgado, Sebastien Secouard, Concepci´on Valencia and Jos´e M. Franco On the Steady-State Flow and Yielding Behaviour of Lubricating Greases Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 6, doi:10.3390/fluids4010006 ..................... 3 Priscilla R. Varges , Camila M. Costa, Bruno S. Fonseca, Mˆonica F. Naccache and Paulo R. de Souza Mendes Rheological Characterization of Carbopol R Dispersions in Water and in Water/Glycerol Solutions Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 3, doi:10.3390/fluids4010003 ..................... 18 Luis G. Baltazar, Fernando M.A. Henriques and Maria Teresa Cidade Rheology of Natural Hydraulic Lime Grouts for Conservation of Stone Masonry—Influence of Compositional and Processing Parameters Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 13, doi:10.3390/fluids4010013 ..................... 38 Francisco-Jos´e Rubio-Hern´andez Rheological Behavior of Fresh Cement Pastes Reprinted from: Fluids 2018, 3, 106, doi:10.3390/fluids3040106 .................... 57 Manuel F´elix, Alberto Romero, Cecilio Carrera-Sanchez and Antonio Guerrero A Comprehensive Approach from Interfacial to Bulk Properties of Legume Protein-Stabilized Emulsions Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 65, doi:10.3390/fluids4020065 ..................... 73 Alexander Kurz, J¨org Bauer and Manfred Wagner Piezo-Plunger Jetting Technology: An Experimental Study on Jetting Characteristics of Filled Epoxy Polymers Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 23, doi:10.3390/fluids4010023 ..................... 84 Mercedes Fernandez, Arrate Huegun and Antxon Santamaria Relevance of Rheology on the Properties of PP/MWCNT Nanocomposites Elaborated with Different Irradiation/Mixing Protocols Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 7, doi:10.3390/fluids4010007 ..................... 99 Ma Carmen Garc´ıa Gonz´alez, Mar´ıa del Socorro Cely Garc´ıa, Jos´eMu˜noz Garc´ıa and Maria-Carmen Alfaro-Rodriguez A Comparison of the Effect of Temperature on the Rheological Properties of Diutan and Rhamsan Gum Aqueous Solutions Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 22, doi:10.3390/fluids4010022 .....................111 Luis A. Trujillo-Cayado, Jenifer Santos, Nuria Calero, Maria del Carmen Alfaro and Jos´eMu˜noz Influence of the Homogenization Pressure on the Rheology of Biopolymer-Stabilized Emulsions Formulated with Thyme Oil Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 29, doi:10.3390/fluids4010029 .....................119 v S´onia Costa, Paulo F. Teixeira, Jos´e A. Covas and Loic Hilliou Assessment of Piezoelectric Sensors for the Acquisition of Steady Melt Pressures in Polymer Extrusion Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 66, doi:10.3390/fluids4020066 .....................130 Salvatore Costanzo, Rossana Pasquino, J¨org L¨auger and Nino Grizzuti Milligram Size Rheology of Molten Polymers Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 28, doi:10.3390/fluids4010028 .....................142 Oumar Abdoulaye Fadoul and Philippe Coussot Saffman–Taylor Instability in Yield Stress Fluids: Theory–Experiment Comparison Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 53, doi:10.3390/fluids4010053 .....................153 J. Paulo Garc´ıa-Sandoval, Fernando Bautista, Jorge E. Puig and Octavio Manero Inhomogeneous Flow of Wormlike Micelles: Predictions of the Generalized BMP Model with Normal Stresses Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 45, doi:10.3390/fluids4010045 .....................165 Eden Furtak-Cole and Aleksey Telyakovskiy A 3D Numerical Study of Interface Effects Influencing Viscous Gravity Currents in a Parabolic Fissure, with Implications for Modeling with 1D Nonlinear Diffusion Equations Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 97, doi:10.3390/fluids4020097 .....................180 Joseph A. Green, Daniel J. Ryckman and Michael Cromer A Continuum Model for Complex Flows of Shear Thickening Colloidal Solutions Reprinted from: Fluids 2019, 4, 21, doi:10.3390/fluids4010021 .....................198 vi About the Special Issue Editors Maria Teresa Cidade belongs to the Polymeric and Mesomorphic Materials Group of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon (FCT NOVA), Portugal. She graduated in Chemical Engineering (IST/Technical University of Lisbon,1983) and obtained a Ph.D. degree from FCT NOVA (1994). In 2006, she was appointed with the Habilitation in Polymer Engineering. Currently, she is Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the Materials Science Department (DCM) of FCT NOVA. She is the Coordinator of the Polymeric and Mesomorphic Materials Group of DCM, Coordinator of the Rheology Sub-Group of the Soft and Bifunctional Materials Group of the Materials Research Centre (Cenimat) of DCM, Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering, and Coordinator of FCT/UNL in the Doctoral Program in Advanced Materials and Processing (a Doctoral Program in Association with six other Portuguese Universities: Lisbon, Coimbra, Beira Interior, Aveiro, Porto, and Minho, supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology). She is the President of the Portuguese Society of Rheology, Associate Editor of Physica Scripta (IOP), and a member of the Editorial Board of Fluids (MDPI). Her main scientific interests are the rheology (including electrorheology and rheo-optics) of complex systems (polymers and polymeric base systems, liquid crystals, nanocomposites, biomaterials, building materials, etc.), the mechanical characterization of polymers and polymer composites, and polymer processing. During her career, she was involved in the supervision of more than 30 researchers, coauthored four book chapters and 79 ISI papers, lodged 1 patent, and presented more than 100 communications in conferences. Jo˜ao Miguel N´obrega is Associate Professor at the Polymer Engineering Department of the University of Minho, and member of the Institute for Polymers and Composites. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minho in Polymer Science and Engineering. He is Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Rheology, Editor of OpenFOAM R Wiki, and a founder member of the Iberian OpenFOAM R Technology Users. His research activity lies in three overlapping areas: product development, polymer processing, and material rheology. For this purpose, he has been developing computational rheology tools to model the flow of complex fluids in various polymer processing techniques. Regarding the product development area, he has been involved in the design and manufacture of polymeric products across several fields, comprising applications for health, textiles, sensoring/monitoring, construction, and mobility. In 2014, he joined the OpenFOAM R Extend community, and has focused, since then, on the main numerical developments in this open source computational library. In 2016, he was the chair of the 11th Workshop OpenFOAM, which took place in Guimaraes,˜ Portugal. During his career, he was involved in the supervision of more than 50 researchers, working both in fundamental and applied research projects; he coedited 2 books and 22 book chapters, published 83 papers in international refereed journals, lodged 9 patents (3 international), and presented approximately 200 communications in conferences. vii fluids Editorial Editorial for Special Issue “Advances in Experimental and Computational Rheology” Maria Teresa Cidade 1,* and João Miguel Nóbrega 2,* 1 Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais and Cenimat/I3N, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal 2 Institute for Polymers and Composites/I3N, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal * Correspondence: [email protected] (M.T.C.); [email protected] (J.M.N.) Received: 9 July 2019; Accepted: 11 July 2019; Published: 12 July 2019 Rheology, defined as the science of deformation and flow of matter, is a multidisciplinary