Rheometry (from Greek ῥέος (rheos) 'stream') generically refers to the experimental techniques used to determine the rheological properties of materials,[1] that is the qualitative and quantitative relationships between stresses and strains and their derivatives.
[2] The choice of the adequate experimental technique depends on the rheological property which has to be determined.
[3] Novel applications of these concepts include measuring cell mechanics in thin layers, especially in drug screening contexts.
Due to the shear thinning properties of blood, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used to assess the risk of aneurysms.
[6] A method for testing the behavior of shear thickening fluids is stochastic rotation dynamics-molecular dynamics (SRD-MD).