Hyperbolic submodels of an incompressible viscoelastic Maxwell medium (Q2446199)

This paper deals with a two-dimensional motion of an incompressible viscoelastic Maxwell continuum. Under some assumptions, the original system can be decomposed into a hyperbolic subsystem and a quadrature. The hyperbolic subsystem mainly depends on the choice of the invariant derivative. The subsystem is quasilinear and can be represented in the form of conservation laws as choosing the Jaumann corotational derivatives as the invariant derivative. By the methods of group analysis of differential equations, The classes of solutions are selected which describe the propagation of transverse waves in such an incompressible viscoelastic Maxwell medium. As choosing the upper or lower convected derivative, the subsystem is linear. It is shown that a plane Couette flow in this model with the corotational derivative is unstable in the linear approximation in the class of shear flow if the Weissenberg number is greater than one. Some results of numerical simulation show that the internal discontinuities can arise in a viscoelastic Maxwell fluid, which leads to significant restructuring of the velocity profile in the flows between moving walls. A hysteresis phenomenon is detected during the change of flow regimes, which shows that internal discontinuities in a fluid are stable with respect to perturbations of finite amplitude.