Robert C. Armstrong

Research.com Recognitions

• 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For conducting outstanding research on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, co-authoring landmark textbooks, and providing leadership in chemical engineering education.
• 1991 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Dynamics of polymeric liquids: Fluid mechanics

  RB Bird;RC Armstrong;Ole Hassager

  1898
  Citations

• A constitutive equation for concentrated suspensions that accounts for shear‐induced particle migration

  Ronald J. Phillips;Robert C. Armstrong;Robert A. Brown;Alan L. Graham

  1211
  Citations

• Shear flow properties of concentrated solutions of linear and star branched polystyrenes

  K. Yasuda;R. C. Armstrong;R. E. Cohen

  918
  Citations

• From text to speech: the MITalk system

  Jonathan Allen;M. Sharon Hunnicutt;Dennis H. Klatt;Robert C. Armstrong

  608
  Citations

• Creeping motion of a sphere through a Bingham plastic

  A. N. Beris;J. A. Tsamopoulos;R. C. Armstrong;R. A. Brown

  586
  Citations

• A Rheological Equation of State for Semiconcentrated Fiber Suspensions

  Steven M. Dinh;Robert C. Armstrong

  580
  Citations

• Finite element methdos for calculation of steady, viscoelastic flow using constitutive equations with a Newtonian viscosity

  Dilip Rajagopalan;Robert C. Armstrong;Robert A. Brown

  464
  Citations

• The frontiers of energy

  Robert C. Armstrong;Catherine D. Wolfram;Krijn P. de Jong;Robert Gross

  415
  Citations

• Dynamics of polymeric liquids: Kinetic theory

  RH Bird;CF Curtiss;RC Armstrong;Ole Hassager

  358
  Citations

• Nonlinear dynamics of viscoelastic flow in axisymmetric abrupt contractions

  Gareth H. McKinley;William P. Raiford;Robert A. Brown;Robert C. Armstrong

  242
  Citations

• Modeling the rheology of polyisobutylene solutions

  L. M. Quinzani;G. H. McKinley;R. A. Brown;R. C. Armstrong

  241
  Citations

• Viscoelastic flow of polymer solutions around a periodic, linear array of cylinders: comparisons of predictions for microstructure and flow fields

  Alice W. Liu;David E. Bornside;Robert C. Armstrong;Robert A. Brown

  219
  Citations

• Numerically stable finite element techniques for viscoelastic calculations in smooth and singular geometries

  Robert C King;Minas R. Apelian;Robert C. Armstrong;Robert A. Brown

  215
  Citations

• The wake instability in viscoelastic flow past confined circular cylinders

  Gareth H. McKinley;Robert C. Armstrong;Robert A. Brown

  209
  Citations

• Observations on the elastic instability in cone-and-plate and parallel-plate flows of a polyisobutylene Boger fluid

  Gareth H. McKinley;Jeffrey A. Byars;Robert A. Brown;Robert C. Armstrong

  201
  Citations

• Traveling waves on vertical films: Numerical analysis using the finite element method

  Todd R. Salamon;Robert C. Armstrong;Robert A. Brown

  187
  Citations

• Finite element method for viscoelastic flows based on the discrete adaptive viscoelastic stress splitting and the discontinuous Galerkin method : DAVSS-G/DG

  J. Sun;M.D. Smith;R.C. Armstrong;R.A. Brown

  181
  Citations

• Rheology of foams: I. Theory for dry foams

  S.A. Khan;R.C. Armstrong

  179
  Citations

• Birefringence and laser-Doppler velocimetry (LDV) studies of viscoelastic flow through a planar contraction

  Lidia M. Quinzani;Robert C. Armstrong;Robert A. Brown

  169
  Citations

• Finite element analysis of steady viscoelastic flow around a sphere in a tube: calculations with constant viscosity models

  W.J. Lunsmann;L. Genieser;R.C. Armstrong;R.A. Brown

  168
  Citations

• Dynamics of polymeric liquids, Volume 1: Fluid mechanics, 2nd Edition

  R. Byron Bird;Robert C. Armstrong;Ole Hassager

  19
  Citations