Existence of global weak solutions to compressible isentropic finitely extensible bead-spring chain models for dilute polymers

We prove the existence of global-in-time weak solutions to a general class of models that arise from the kinetic theory of dilute solutions of nonhomogeneous polymeric liquids, where the polymer molecules are idealized as bead-spring chains with finitely extensible nonlinear elastic (FENE) type spri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barrett, JW, Süli, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2015