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2025 Short Courses
2025 Short Courses
Fundamentals of Powder/Granular Rheology and Flow (a one-day short course)
October 18, 2025 (Saturday), Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, 8:30 am
Applied Powder Rheology (a one-day short course)
October 19, 2025 (Sunday), Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, 8:30 am
Both short courses are held in conjunction with the 96th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology (October 19-23, 2025).
Online participation is also an option. Online participants will access live streaming of the real-time lectures synchronously.
Participants can take both courses at a discounted bundle rate.
Short Course Registration Details
Short Course Registration Details
Short course registration includes a complete set of course notes. Payment can be made on line with MasterCard, Visa, Discover, or American Express. Lunch and snacks for the breaks will be provided each day for in-person participants.
One-Day Short Courses
- Fundamentals of Powder/Granular Rheology and Flow (Sat Oct 18)
- Applied Powder Rheology (Sun Oct 19)
Registration Fees for a One-Day Short Course |
Through 9/5/2025 |
After 9/5/2025*** |
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In Person |
Online |
In Person |
Online |
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Member* |
$600 |
$400 |
$700 |
$500 |
Non-Member** (includes membership for 2026) |
$750 |
$520 |
$850 |
$620 |
Student Member* |
$300 |
$200 |
$400 |
$300 |
Student Non-Member** (includes membership for 2026) |
$350 |
$240 |
$450 |
$340 |
Retired Member* |
$300 |
$200 |
$400 |
$300 |
- Fundamentals of Powder/Granular Rheology and Flow + Applied Powder Rheology (Sat Oct 18 – Sun Oct 19)
Registration Fees for a Two-Day Short Course Bundle |
Through 9/5/2025 |
After 9/5/2025*** |
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In Person |
Online |
In Person |
Online |
|
Member* |
$900 |
$600 |
$1,000 |
$700 |
Non-Member** (includes membership for 2025) |
$1,050 |
$720 |
$1,150 |
$820 |
Student Member* |
$450 |
$300 |
$550 |
$400 |
Student Non-Member** (includes membership for 2025) |
$500 |
$340 |
$600 |
$440 |
Retired Member* |
$450 |
$300 |
$550 |
$400 |
** Non-members who are registered to attend the 96th Annual Meeting may register for the short course at the member rates in the same registration order.
*** Subject to availability. Cutoff date is Friday 10 October 2025.
Cancellations for the short course received by email (c/o The Local Arrangements Chair, Christine Roberts ) by Friday 5 September 2025 will be refunded minus a $50 administrative charge. No refunds will be granted after that date.
Registration closed 10/10/2025
Instructors
Alban Sauret, University of Maryland
Abhi Singh, Case Western Reserve University
Thomas O’Connor, Carnegie Mellon University
James Gilchrist, Lehigh University
Introduction (1.5 - 2 hours)
- Industrial and natural flows
- Classic experiments and flows (shutes, tumblers, funnels, conveyors)
- Classification of powders (what is a powder/granular material?)
- Fundamental forces/interactions (particle-scale interactions, adhesion, capillarity, friction)
- Collective behavior (mixing, segregation, jamming)
Stress propagation in powders (1.5 - 2 hours)
- Scaling analyses (density, gravity, friction, cohesion)
- Constitutive equations of freely flowing powders
- Cohesive granular rheology
- Role of polydispersity from ideal from non-spherical particles
- Wall friction
Simulations of powders/granular media
- LAMMPS/DEM tutorial (1.5 - 2 hours)
- Scaling, microstructure, force chains, and other micro-to-macro scale calculations from simulations (1.5 - 2 hours)
Instructors
Abhi Shetty, Anaton Paar
James Eickhoff Jr., Anton Paar
Welcome and Overview (0.25 hour)
- Introductions, course objectives
- Importance of powder rheology in industrial and research settings
- What attendees will gain from the day
Session 1: Introduction to Powder Rheology (1.5 hours)
- What is powder rheology?
- Comparison with liquid rheology
- Factors influencing powder flow (cohesion, size, humidity, electrostatics)
- Historical perspective
- Powder rheological characterization methods
- Applications in pharmaceuticals, food, additive manufacturing, and dry battery manufacturing
Session 2: Powder Shear Cell – Principles and Interpretation (1.5 hours)
- Basics of shear testing in powders
- From shear to flowability
- Mohr circle analysis, yield loci explained easily
- Shear cell types (ring shear, annular)
- Evaluation of flowability indices (ffc, FF, Cohesion, UYS, angle of internal friction)
- Example use case studies
Session 3: Powder Flow Cell – Theory and Applications (1.5 hours)
- Principle of operation of the Powder Flow Cell
- Test types: Fluidization, Tensile Strength, Segregation, Flowability (Warren Springs, BFE, SE) and other multipurpose tests like compressibility, Envelope density.
- Interpreting results
- Example use case studies
Session 4: Lab Component (2 hours)
- Shear cell testing with cohesive materials like Limestone
- Fluidization test with powder flow cell with Geldart A type materials
- Envelope density test (time permitting)
Panel Discussion and Wrap-up (0.25 hour)
- Recap of major points - Take away messages
- Open floor for attendee questions
Previous Short Courses
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12-13 October 2024, Austin, Texas
- LAOS Rheology: a start-to-finish guide (a one-day short course): Simon Rogers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Automated Rheology and Application to Multi-methods Measurements (a one-day short course): Jeffrey Richards (Nortwestern Umiversity) and Thibaut Divoux (CNRS / ENS de Lyon)
8-9 October 2022, Chicago, Illinois
- Introduction to Rheology (a one-day short course): George Petekidis (University of Crete and FORTH) and Norman J. Wagner (University of Delaware)
- Rheology of Colloidal Glasses and Gels (a one-day short course): George Petekidis (University of Crete and FORTH) and Norman J. Wagner (University of Delaware)
- Rheology in Additive Manufacturing (a one-day short course): Jonathan Seppala (NIST) and Leanne Friedrich (NIST)
10 October 2021, Bangor, Maine
- Colloidal Gels: Formation, Structure, and Rheology (a two-day short course): Matthew E. Helgeson (UC Santa Barbara), Roseanna Zia (Stanford University) and Safa Jamali (Northeastern University)
19-20 October 2019, Raleigh, North Carolina
Rheology of Foods (a one-day short course): Peter Fischer (ETH Zürich) and E. Allen Foegeding (North Carolina State University)
Suspension/Granular Rheology (a one-and-a-half-day short course):
Jeffrey Morris (CUNY City College of New York) and Karen Daniels (North Carolina State University)