Determination of normal stresses in dilute polymer solutions using the electrochemical diagnostics of flow around a rotating sphere

Viscoelastic stresses in the stagnation

Viscoelastic stresses in the stagnation flow of a dilute polymer solution

✍ Robert A. Van Gorder; K. Vajravelu; F. Talay Akyildiz 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 843 KB

In this paper, we consider viscoelastic stresses T 11 , T 12 and T 22 arising in the stagnation flow of a dilute polymer solution; in particular, we consider an upper convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid. We present exact solutions to the coupled partial differential equations describing the viscoelastic s