Recent advances in the mathematical theory of steady flow of viscoelastic fluids (Q1116769): Difference between revisions

The paper reviews recent existence theorems for steady flows of viscoelastic fluids. The results concern small perturbations of either the rest state or a flow with uniform velocity. Differential as well as integral models are discussed. For differential models, we also discuss the boundary conditions which need to be prescribed at an inflow boundary; it turns out that there is a difference between Maxwell- and Jeffreys-type models in this respect. For Newtonian fluids, existence results which go much farther are known; the data need not be small and no regularity of the boundary is required. A number of problems are pointed out which make similar results for viscoelastic fluids difficult and in some cases unlikely.