The Materials and Methods section is a vital component of any formal lab report. This section of the report gives a detailed account of the procedure that was followed in completing the experiment(s) discussed in the report.
shear flow. Definitions: 1. a flow of a material in which parallel planes in the material are displaced in a direction parallel to each other. The definition information for shear flow is provided by Stedman's.
Shear can be produced by the simple motion of the blade passing through the product. It is affected by product viscosity, blade width, blade speed, blade design, the number of blades, the proximity of the blade to the tank wall and the proximity of the blades to one another.