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.
