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A Blowup Criterion for Ideal Viscoelastic Flow

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We establish an analog of the Beale–Kato–Majda criterion for singularities of smooth solutions of the system of PDE arising in the Oldroyd model for ideal viscoelastic flow.

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Correspondence to Ryan Hynd.

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Communicated by G. P. Galdi

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS-1004733.

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Hu, X., Hynd, R. A Blowup Criterion for Ideal Viscoelastic Flow. J. Math. Fluid Mech. 15, 431–437 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-012-0124-z

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