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Existence and stability of steady flows of weakly viscoelastic fluids*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2011
Synopsis
We consider steady flows of viscoelastic fluids for which the extrastress tensor is given by a differential constitutive equation and is such that the retardation time is large (weakly viscoelastic fluids).
We show the existence of a unique viscoelastic steady flow close to a given Newtonian flow and investigate its linear stability.
As an example, we consider the Bénard problem for viscoelastic fluids and we prove that there exists a nontrivial linearly stable flow of a weakly viscoelastic fluid in a container heated from below.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 119 , Issue 1-2 , 1991 , pp. 137 - 158
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991
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