Viscoelastic Stokes Flow

ORAL

Abstract

We extend the formalism of Stokes flow from viscous to viscoelastic fluids, and then illustrate this correspondence with a variety of applications, including flow past a moving point source and flow around a driven oscillating sphere.

*Supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the NSF UNC Research Training Group Grant

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Authors

  • M. Gregory Forest

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Ke Xu

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Isaac Klapper

    • Montana State University