Emergence of coherent localized structures in shear deformations of temperature dependent fluids (Q522184)

The authors consider a simple model capturing the mechanism of shear band formation, a simple shear motion of a non-Newtonian fluid with temperature decreasing viscosity. For a special dependence of the viscosity on the temperature, a linearized stability analysis around a base state of uniform shearing solutions is carried out. Various mechanisms affecting the problem: thermal softening, momentum diffusion and thermal diffusion are discussed. For the fully nonlinear model, localized states (similarity solutions) that emerge as coherent structures in the localization process are constructed.