Failure of energy stability in Oldroyd-B fluids at arbitrarily low Reynolds numbers

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 135, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 92-96

  Doering, Charles R ^a   Eckhardt, Bruno ^b   Schumacher, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy stability; Planar shear flow; Viscoelastic flow

Indexed keywords

NEWTONIAN FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY;

ENERGY STABILITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; OLROYD-B FLUIDS; PLANAR SHEAR FLOW; VISCOELASTIC FLOW;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NEWTONIAN FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 33646358205     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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