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PROF DAVID BOGER



Contact Details

Organization: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Position: CHAIR OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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Homepage: http://www.chemeng.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/boger.html
Work: 8344 7440
Fax: 8344 6233
Room: 318
Level: 03
Building: Chemical Engineering #1
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Bucknell University
Chartered Engineer Institution not known
Master of Science University of Illinois
Doctor of Philosophy University of Illinois

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member American Society of Rheology Member of the American Society of Rheology 01-Nov-1970
Member British Society of Rheology Member of the British Society of Rheology 01-Oct-1987
Member Australian Society of Rheology Member of the Australian Society of Rheology 01-Jan-1983
Member Institute of Non Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Member 10-Nov-2002

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 01-Mar-1993
Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (FICHEME) 01-Mar-1986
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) 01-Mar-1989
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 01-Mar-2007

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Royal Society of Victoria 01-Mar-1985
Other (Award) Esso Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering 01-Nov-1991
Prize Pol Eureka Prize for Environmental Research 01-Nov-1993
Medal Australian Society of Rheology 01-Nov-1994
Prize Walter Ahlstrom Environmental Prize awarded by the Finnish Academies of Technology 01-Nov-1995
Other (Award) Alcoa, USA Environmental Excellence Award 01-Nov-1995
Medal CSIRO External Medal for Excellence in Research 01-Nov-1998
Medal Australian Academy of Science Flinders Medal 01-Nov-2000
Medal Chemeca Medal 01-Nov-2000
Prize Victoria Prize 01-Nov-2000
Medal K L Sutherland Memorial Medal 01-Nov-2002
Other (Award) Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award 01-Nov-2003
Medal Centenary Medal, awarded by the Australian Government for service to Australian society and science in chemical engineering 01-Nov-2003
Medal Gold Medal of the British Society of Rheology 01-Nov-2004
Prize Prime Minister's Prize for Science 01-Nov-2005
Medal Centenary Medal 01-Nov-2003

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Particulate Fluids Processing Centre Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Special Research Centres 01/01/2000
Production of a compact disk summarising the evolution & impact of Boger fluids Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/01/2004
AUSTRALIAN MINERAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ("AMSRI") Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Making an Unsustainable Industry More Sustainable
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Paste 2008
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Seminar on Paste 08
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3-14
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  • Paste and Thickened Tailings and the Impact on the Development of New Rheological Techniques
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Paste 2008
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Tenth International Seminar on Paste and Thickened Tailings
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 225-236
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • An approximate solution to flow through a contraction for high Trouton ratio fluids
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 144
    Issue: 2-3
    Page numbers: 87-97
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  • Role of the Elasticity Number in the Entry Flow of Dilute Polymer Solutions in Micro-Fabricated Contraction Geometrics
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 143
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 170-191
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  • The Bucket Rheometer for Shear Stress-Shear Rate Measurement of Industrial Suspensions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Rheology
    Volume: 51
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 821-831
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Bucket Rheometer for Thickened Tailings and Paste Flow Curve Determination
    Year: 2007
    Event name: PASTE 2007
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Paste and Thickening Tailings
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 249-257
    Publisher: Australian Centre for Geomechanics(Nedlands, WA)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Rheological Concepts
    Year: 2006
    Book: Paste and Thickened Tailings - A Guide
    Publisher: University of Western Australia Press(Nedlands)
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Journal Articles

  • Engineering Education - a personal perspective
    Year: 2006
    Journal: ATSE Focus
    Volume: 141
    Page numbers: 6-7
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  • Measurement errors in yield stress rheometry that arise from toroue auto  zero
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Applied Rheology
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 206-209
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  • Rheology and the Triple Bottom Line
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Rheology Bulletin
    Volume: 75
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 4-5
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Batchelor's theory extended to elongated cylindrical or ellipsoidal particles
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 130
    Page numbers: 57-61
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • The inertio-elastic planar entry flow of low-viscosity elastic fluids in micro-fabricated geometries
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 1-22
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Tailings waste minimisation, rheology and the triple bottom line
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Paste 2005
    Conference Publication: Paste 2005 - Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Paste and Thickened Tailings
    Page numbers: 5-27
    Publisher: Australian Centre for Geomechanics(Perth)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Introduction to "The diabolical case of the recurring yield stress"
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Applied Rheology
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 40-45
    Publisher: Kerschensteiner Verlag GmbH(Lappersdorf)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The effect of surface character on flows in microchannels
    Year: 2004
    Event name: SPIE - Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SPIE - BioMEMS and Nanotechnology
    Volume: 5275
    Page numbers: 114-122
    Publisher: SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering(Washington)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Analysis of the slump test for on-site yield stress measurement of mineral suspensions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: International Journal of Mineral Processing
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 3-21
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Compressive rheology: An overview
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Rheology Reviews 2003
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 125-165
    Publisher: Cambrian Printers(Aberystwyth)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Environmental Rheology
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The Nordic Rheology Conference
    Conference Publication: Annual Transactions of the Nordic Rheology Society
    Volume: II
    Page numbers: 9-10
    Publisher: Nordic Rheology Society(Brabrand)
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  • Particulate fluids processing - from molecules to colloids: An overview
    Year: 2003
    Event name: ISFRS 2003: 3rd International Symposium on Food Rheology and Structure
    Conference Publication: ISFRS 2003 Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Food Rheology and Structure - Eurorheo 2003-01
    Page numbers: 3-4
    Publisher: Kerschensteiner Verlag GmbH(Lappersdorf)
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  • Procrastination may not pay in tailings management
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Tailings and Mine Waste 03
    Conference Publication: Tailings and Mine Waste 03
    Page numbers: 441-449
    Publisher: A A Balkema(Lisse)
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  • Sustainability, environmental rheology and full cost accounting of tailings disposal
    Year: 2003
    Event name: XXII International mineral Processing Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the XXII International Mineral Processing Congress
    Page numbers: 1732-1741
    Publisher: The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Cape Town)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Rheological Concepts
    Year: 2002
    Book: Paste and Thickened Tailings - A Guide
    Publisher: University of Western Australia Press(Nedlands)
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  • Shear and compressional rheology principles in ceramic processing
    Year: 2002
    Book: Polymers in particulate systems properties and applications
    Publisher: Dekker - Marcel Dekker(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • A drop impact study of worm-like viscoelastic surfactant solutions
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
    Volume: 210
    Page numbers: 105-123
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Drop formation dynamics of constant low-viscosity, elastic fluids
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 106
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 29-59
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Dynamics of polymer-surfactant complexes: elongational properties and drop impact behavior
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 6443-6459
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Environmental rheology for waste minimisation in the minerals industry
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal
    Volume: 86
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 319-330
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Lausanne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Accounting for sustainability
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 9th APCChE Congress and Chemeca 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th APPCChE Congress and Chemecca 2002
    Page numbers: 1-16
    Publisher: Society of Chemical Engineers New Zealand(Canterbury)
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  • Alternatives for tailings and accounting for sustainability
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Global Mining Initiative Conference
    Conference Publication: Global Minining Initiative Conference
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: The Pinnacle Group(Toronto)
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  • Exploiting the rheology of mine tailings for dry disposal implementation
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 6th World Congress on Chemical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress on Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 10
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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  • Management of the flow and processing of mining waste streams
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Green Processing 2002
    Conference Publication: Green Processing 2002 AusIMM Publication Series No 4/2002
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 251-258
    Publisher: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Melbourne)
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  • Planning, design and implementation strategy for thickened tailings and pastes
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Ninth International Conference on Tailings & Mine Waste '02
    Conference Publication: Tailings and Mine Waste '02
    Page numbers: 129-137
    Publisher: A A Balkema(Lisse)
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  • The importance of rheology in paste fill operations
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 10
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A spectroscopic study of polyelectrolyte solutions under shear
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 6981-6989
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • A structural model for the time-dependent recovery of mineral suspensions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Rheologica Acta
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 582-590
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Advanced rheological techniques for optimizing borate-crosslinked fracturing fluid selection and performance
    Year: 2001
    Journal: SPE Journal
    Volume: December 2001
    Page numbers: 239-242
    Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers(Texas)
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  • Chemical and physical control of the rheology of concentrated metal oxide suspensions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 2901-2920
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Dependence of linear viscoelastic critical strain and stress values on extent of gelation for a thermally activated gelling system
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Rheologica Acta
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 23-29
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Gel point studies for chemically modified biopolymer networks using small amplitude oscillatory rheometry
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 185-198
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Heterodyne and nonergodic approach to dynamic light scattering of polymer gels: Aqueous xanthan in the presence of metal ions (Aluminium (III))
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Macromolecules
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 3339-3352
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Polymer concentration dependence of the gel point for chemically modified biopolymer networks using small amplitude oscillatory rheometry
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 3923-3928
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Predictions of the change in extinction coefficient for prolate particles
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Chemical Physics
    Volume: 115
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 5679-5689
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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  • Rapid filtration measurment of de-watering design and optimisation parameters
    Year: 2001
    Journal: AICHE Journal
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1758-1769
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  • Rheo-optics of a conjugated polymer system in shear
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Polymer
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 7755-7764
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Rheological characterisation of k-carrageenan/locust bean gum mixtures
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Carbohydrate Polymers
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 117-124
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Rheology of Dextran Solutions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 97
    Issue: 2/3
    Page numbers: 295-301
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Structure and rheology of the k-carrageenan/locust bean gum gels
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Food Hydrocolloids
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 475-484
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Swirling flow of viscoelastic fluids. Part 1. Interaction between inertia and elasticity
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 429
    Page numbers: 67-115
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  • Swirling flow of viscoelastic fluids. Part 2. Elastic effects
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 429
    Page numbers: 117-153
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  • The measurement of the flow around a sphere settling in a rectangular box using 3-dimensional particle image velocimetry
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Communications
    Volume: 188
    Page numbers: 143-178
    Publisher: Gordon Breach Publishing(Pennsylvania)
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  • The role of dynamic surface tension and elasticity on the dynamics of drop impact
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 5575-5592
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Slope prediction for thickened tailings and pastes
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Tailings and Mine Waste '01
    Conference Publication: Tailings and Mine Waste '01
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 75-83
    Publisher: A A Balkema
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