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Rheology

Rheology is the study of the deformation and flow of matter. The term rheology was coined by Eugene Bingham, a professor at Lehigh University, in 1920, from a suggestion by Markus Reiner, inspired by the Heraclitus' famous expression "panta rhei": everything flows. Rheology has important applications in the engineering sciences and in physiology. Hemorheology is the study of the flow properties of blood.

Basic rheological terms are:

Fluids can be categorized as: Rheological properties are determined by means of rheometry.

Journals covering rheology include: