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Boundary conditions for steady flows of viscoelastic fluids

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Problems Involving Change of Type

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We discuss small perturbations of uniform flow of a viscoelastic fluid transverse to a strip. The constitutive relation is assumed to be of Maxwell or JefFreys type. We present a summary of recent results concerning the choice of boundary conditions which lead to a well-posed problem.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and ICAM, Virginia Tech, 24061-0123, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Michael Renardy

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Renardy, M. (1990). Boundary conditions for steady flows of viscoelastic fluids. In: Kirchgässner, K. (eds) Problems Involving Change of Type. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 359. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52595-5_90

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