Viscoelastic ribbons

A reduced model is presented for the dynamics of a slender sheet of a viscoelastic fluid. Starting with the Oldroyd-B constitutive model and exploiting an asymptotic analysis in the small aspect ratio of the sheet, equations are derived for the evolution of a ‘visco-elastica’. These depend on an ela...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hewitt, IJ, Balmforth, NJ
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020