Existence of Slow Steady Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids with Differential Constitutive Equations.

Abstract

Abstract : Questions of existence and uniqueness of steady flows of viscoelastic fluids have thus far not been understood, even for slow flows perturbing rest. This paper provides an existence result for slow flows with no in- and outflow boundaries. The fluid is assumed to be described by constitutive equations of a differential nature. The method used to prove existence is constructive and in fact very close to procedures used in numerical calculations.