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Stability of steady shearing flows subject to large shearing perturbations in a non-linear viscoelastic fluid*†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

M. Slemrod
M. Slemrod
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. 12181, U.S.A.
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Synopsis

This paper studies stability of steady state solutions in a non-linear viscoelastic fluid. The main technique is to imbed the equation of motion in singularly perturbed equations and apply an energy method and the parabolic maximum principle.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 85 , Issue 3-4 , 1980 , pp. 251 - 262
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1980

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