The controllability of viscoelastic fields is a fundamental concept that defines some essential capabilities and limitations of the resulting materials. In this paper, we study the controllability of different homogeneous flow fields of viscoelastic fluids governed by the upper convected Maxwell mod
Control of homogeneous shear flow of multimode Maxwell fluids
โ Scribed by Evgeny Savelev; Michael Renardy
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 485 KB
- Volume
- 165
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0377-0257
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โฆ Synopsis
We consider a homogeneous parallel shear flow of a multimode Maxwell fluid. This problem results in a set of ordinary differential equations for the stresses. In this system, we view the shear rate as a control and consider the problem of steering the system to a given state of stress. The objective is to steer the system from given initial stresses to a final state of stress, allowing the shear rate to vary in an arbitrary fashion. We show that this problem is related to a calculus of variations problem. For the case of two modes, we obtain a characterization of the set of achievable streses.
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