This book develops continuum modeling skills and approaches the topic
from three sides: (1) derivation of global integral laws together with
the associated local differential equations, (2) design of constitutive
laws and (3) modeling boundary processes. The focus of this presentation
lies on many practical examples covering aspects such as coupled flow,
diffusion and reaction in porous media or microwave heating of a pizza,
as well as traffic issues in bacterial colonies and energy harvesting
from geothermal wells. The target audience comprises primarily graduate
students in pure and applied mathematics as well as working
practitioners in engineering who are faced by nonstandard rheological
topics like those typically arising in the food industry.