Stability of the Poiseuille-type flow for a MHD model of an incompressible polymeric fluid

Abstract

We study a generalization of the Pokrovski--Vinogradov model for flows of solutions and melts of an incompressible viscoelastic polymeric medium to nonisothermal flows in an infinite plane channel under the influence of magnetic field. For the linearized problem (when the basic solution is an analogue of the classical Poiseuille flow for a viscous fluid described by the Navier-Stokes equations) we find a formal asymptotic representation for the eigenvalues under the growth of their modulus. We obtain a necessary condition for the asymptotic stability of a Poiseuille-type shear flow.