[1] He is internationally recognized for his research contributions to the fields of polymer physics and complex fluid rheology, especially in the development of theory and computational simulations.
Notably, Larson and collaborators discovered new types of viscoelastic instabilities for polymer molecules and developed predictive theories for their flow behavior.
He has written numerous scientific papers and two books on these subjects,[2][3] including a 1998 textbook, “The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids”.
He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2003) for elucidating the flow properties of complex fluids at the molecular and continuum levels through theory and experiment.
Larson is the sole author of two textbooks, “Constitutive Equations for Polymer Melts and Solutions”, and “The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids”.