(1) Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0123, USA
Abstract:
We consider plane shear flows of viscoelastic fluids. For a number of constitutive models, we prove stability of the rest
state for perturbations of arbitrary size. We also consider stability of plane Poiseuille flow in a few special cases.
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-0405810.