Existence of global weak solutions for some polymeric flow models

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 939-983

  Barrett, John W ^a   Schwab, Christoph ^b   Süli, Endre ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Existence of weak solutions; FENE; Fokker Planck equations; Navier Stokes equations; Polymeric flow models

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844385711     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202505000625     Document Type: Article

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