This book presents a comprehensive overview of the modeling of complex
fluids, including many common substances, such as toothpaste, hair gel,
mayonnaise, liquid foam, cement and blood, which cannot be described by
Navier-Stokes equations. It also offers an up-to-date mathematical and
numerical analysis of the corresponding equations, as well as several
practical numerical algorithms and software solutions for the
approximation of the solutions. It discusses industrial (molten
plastics, forming process), geophysical (mud flows, volcanic lava,
glaciers and snow avalanches), and biological (blood flows, tissues)
modeling applications. This book is a valuable resource for
undergraduate students and researchers in applied mathematics,
mechanical engineering and physics.