Cone-and-plate flow of the Oldroyd-B fluid is unstable (Q760275)
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Cone-and-plate flow of the Oldroyd-B fluid is unstable (English)
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1985
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It is shown that the creeping cone-and-plate flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid is unstable with respect to an infinitesimal disturbance. The critical Weissenberg number for the case of the Maxwell fluid is about 2.
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instability in the constitutive model
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creeping cone-and-plate flow
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Oldroyd-B fluid
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infinitesimal disturbance
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critical Weissenberg number
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Maxwell fluid
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