[Rheol Acta (2005) 44:305–314. DOI: 10.1007/s00397-005-0003-0

The text above Eq. (16) should read: “Using (4) and (5), and the scaling suggested by (6a)–(6 g) we find that the dimensionless storage modulus \({\left( {\widetilde{G}\prime = G\prime H^{2} /K_{{33}} } \right)}\), loss modulus \({\left( {\widetilde{G}\prime \prime = G\prime \prime H^{2} /K_{{33}} } \right)}\) and loss tangent \({\left( {\tan \,\delta = \widetilde{G}\prime \prime /\widetilde{G}\prime } \right)}\) (Burghardt 1991) are:”

The text below Eqs. (40a,b) should read: “and hence the impact of geometry is almost insignificant. For large frequencies, \(U_{1} {\left( {\widetilde{\omega }} \right)} \approx U_{2} {\left( {\widetilde{\omega }} \right)}\), for both flows”.

References: de Andrade Lima and Rey (2004a,b,c) should be located between Chandrasekhar (1992) and de Gennes and Prost (1993).