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    The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness":...
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    the apparent viscosity is constant, and equal to the Newtonian viscosity of the fluid, but for non-Newtonian fluids, the apparent viscosity depends on the...
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  • The viscosity index (VI) is an arbitrary, unit-less measure of a fluid's change in viscosity relative to temperature change. It is mostly used to characterize...
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  • In mathematics, the viscosity solution concept was introduced in the early 1980s by Pierre-Louis Lions and Michael G. Crandall as a generalization of...
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    antiwear additives, detergents, dispersants, and, for multi-grade oils, viscosity index improvers.[citation needed] The main function of motor oil is to...
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  • Look up viscosity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Viscosity (commonly perceived as "thickness", or resistance to pouring) is the measure of the resistance...
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  • Viscosity depends strongly on temperature. In liquids it usually decreases with increasing temperature, whereas, in most gases, viscosity increases with...
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  • describe the viscous stress and the strain rate are related by a constant viscosity tensor that does not depend on the stress state and velocity of the flow...
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  • Relative viscosity (ηrel{\displaystyle \eta _{rel}}) (a synonym of "viscosity ratio") is the ratio of the viscosity of a solution (η{\displaystyle \eta...
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  • inherent viscosity is the ratio of the natural logarithm of the relative viscosity of a polymer to its mass concentration. Inherent viscosity is defined...
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