Numerical breakdown at high Weissenberg number in non-Newtonian contraction flows

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 62-70

  Tsai, Tai Ping ^a,b   Malkus, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CTS Components Taiwan Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Non monotonic numerical simulation; Quadrature; UCM

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTION; FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 0034078560     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003970050007     Document Type: Review

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