Recent Advances in the Continuum Mechanics of Viscoelastic Liquids

Download or read book Recent Advances in the Continuum Mechanics of Viscoelastic Liquids written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kinematics of viscoelastic fluid flows the development of constitutive relations and their use in viscometric and nonviscometric flows is given. Experimental data in viscometric flows, extensional flows and the eccentric rotating disk motion along with oscillatory shear flows are presented and compared with theoretical predictions. The flow classification scheme for selection of the appropriate constitutive equation and the perturbation schemes applicable to fixed and variable domains are described. These are applied to review the literature on particle motions, lubrication problems and rotating flows. Stability of the flows is discussed along with some recent work on existence, uniqueness and the use of dynamical system and hyperbolic theory in connection with propagating singular surfaces.