Microgravity Coagulation and Particle Gel Formation
Rudy Folkersma
Technical University Eindhoven, 24 June, 1997.

Promotoren: prof.dr. H.N. Stein
Copromotor: prof.dr.ir. A.A.H. Drinkenburg

Contents:

• Chapter 1: General Introduction
  
• Chapter 2: Coagulation kinetics, measuring instruments and electrophoretic properties of polystyrene particles.
• Chapter 3: Perikinetic coagulation at micro-g conditions. (see full text)
• Chapter 4: Perikinetic coagulation at 1g and high-g conditions. (see full text)
• Chapter 5: Comparison of four phenomena involved in the perikinetic coagulation process.
• Chapter 6: Rheology of dilute gels formed by coagulation of PS-spheres.
• Chapter 7: Visualization of the breakdown of a dilute gel during steady shear.
• Appendix A: Hydrodynamic sedimentation of heterogeneous dispersions.
• Appendix B: Interaction potentials.
• Appendix C: The Boussinesq approximation.
• List of symbols
• Summary
• Samenvatting
• Dankwoord
• Curriculum Vitae