Linear instability of shear thinning pressure driven channel flow
(2019)
Journal Article
Barlow, H., Hemingway, E., Clarke, A., & Fielding, S. (2019). Linear instability of shear thinning pressure driven channel flow. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 270, 66-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2019.07.004
We study theoretically pressure driven planar channel flow of shear thinning viscoelastic fluids. Combining linear stability analysis and full nonlinear simulation, we study the instability of an initially one-dimensional base state to the of two-dim... Read More about Linear instability of shear thinning pressure driven channel flow.