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Global Solutions for Incompressible Viscoelastic Fluids

Analysis of PDEs 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We prove the existence of both local and global smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem in the whole space and the periodic problem in the n-dimensional torus for the incompressible viscoelastic system of Oldroyd-B type in the case of near equilibrium initial data. The results hold in both two and three dimensional spaces. The results and methods presented in this paper are also valid for a wide range of elastic complex fluids, such as magnetohydrodynamics, liquid crystals and mixture problems.

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@article{arxiv.0901.3658,
  title  = {Global Solutions for Incompressible Viscoelastic Fluids},
  author = {Zhen Lei and Chun Liu and Yi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3658},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

We prove the existence of global smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem for the incompressible viscoelastic system of Oldroyd-B type in the case of near equilibrium initial data

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