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Newtonian limit of Maxwell fluid flows

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-15 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

In this paper, we revise Maxwell's constitutive relation and formulate a system of first-order partial differential equations with two parameters for compressible viscoelastic fluid flows. The system is shown to possess a nice conservation-dissipation (relaxation) structure and therefore is symmetrizable hyperbolic. Moreover, for smooth flows we rigorously verify that the revised Maxwell's constitutive relations are compatible with Newton's law of viscosity.

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@article{arxiv.1303.0373,
  title  = {Newtonian limit of Maxwell fluid flows},
  author = {Wen-An Yong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.0373},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages