Linear theory of nonisothermal forced elongation (Q816569)

Nonisothermal forced elongation describes the strongly nonisothermal flow of a highly viscous fluid that forms a thin axisymmetric filament under the action of tension. Such flows are important in the chemical industry and in the spinning of thin synthetic fibers. This paper uses the linearized form of the equations to show that the solutions of the associated boundary-initial value problem are governed by a strongly continuous semigroup of bounded linear operators on the physically correct state space, and that the semigroup is eventually differentiable. The regularity of the semigroup is established via two complemenmtary methods, one based on the Pazy classical result of eventual differentiability, while the second involves a direct method. It is shown that the regularity properties of the semigroup correspond to the expected physical behaviour of the elongational flow.