Steady flows of viscoelastic fluids in domains with outlets to infinity (Q1586142)

The authors study the motion of viscoelastic incompressible second- and third-grade Rivlin-Ericksen and Oldroyd-type fluids in unbounded domains with cylindrical and parabolic outlets to infinity. The both problems can be decomposed into a coupled system of linear Stokes-type and transport equations. This allows to prove existence and uniqueness of solutions in weighted Hölder spaces by standard contraction argument for sufficiently small fluxes prescribed in outlets. The solutions are constructured as perturbations of Navier-Stokes solutions and special exact solutions of Poiseuille-type. Finally, the authors generalize the results to quasi-cylindrical outlets to infinity.