Polymer stretch in dilute fixed beds of fibres or spheres

DOI10.1017/S0022112092002957zbMath0806.76009MaRDI QIDQ4022952

Donald L. Koch, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

Publication date: 20 January 1993

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

probability densitylong-range interactionscritical Deborah numberHookean dumbbellsmethod of averaged equationsanisotropic Gaussian statisticsstochastic flow field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena (76A99)

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