Elastic free energy of an upper-convected Maxwell fluid undergoing a fully developed planar Poiseuille flow: A variational result (Q2366986)
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Elastic free energy of an upper-convected Maxwell fluid undergoing a fully developed planar Poiseuille flow: A variational result (English)
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15 August 1993
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By using a variational formalism, it has been proved that the actual ``hydrodynamic'' velocity profile (the ``parabolic'' one) minimizes the elastic free energy content.
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parabolic profile
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constitutive equation
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