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On Viscoelastic Fluids
Optimization| Speaker: | Chun Liu, Penn St. |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Fri, Feb 21 2003, 4:10PM |
Description
In this talk, I will discuss a few examples of
viscoelastic fluids. We are particularly interested in the rheological and
hydrodynamic behavior arising from specific types of fluid
microstructures. An energetic variational formulation is employed
to derive the coupled systems. We will discuss the special coupling
between the transport of the elastic variables and the
induced elastic stress. Moreover, these system often involve effects
between different scales and the interactions between
them. I will present some modeling and analytical results, as well as
several open problems.