Comparison of measured centerplane stress and velocity fields with predictions of viscoelastic constitutive models

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1331-1350

  Genieser, Lars H ^a   Brown, Robert A ^a   Armstrong, Robert C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PLASTIC FLOW; STRESSES; VISCOSITY;

ELONGATIONAL FLOW; FLOW INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; NONLINEAR STRESS RESPONSE; VELOCITY FIELDS; VISCOELASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODELS;

VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0346306238     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.1608951     Document Type: Article

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