Unidirectional steady flow of a viscoelastic fluid with a free surface
Author(s) -
José Miguel Urbano,
Juha Videman
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
interfaces and free boundaries mathematical analysis computation and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.964
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1463-9971
pISSN - 1463-9963
DOI - 10.4171/ifb/48
Subject(s) - viscoelasticity , open channel flow , free surface , boundary value problem , ode , mathematics , nonlinear system , laplace operator , flow (mathematics) , mathematical analysis , mechanics , fluid dynamics , free boundary problem , physics , geometry , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics
We study the steady flow of a second grade fluid down an open inclined channel. We formulate the mathematical problem, a mixed boundary value problem for the Laplacian with an unknown free boundary described by a nonlinear second-order ODE, and prove existence of a unique solution for small data using a contraction argument.
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