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Parallel-Plate Flow

Consider the flow of a viscoelastic fluid in the gap between two coaxial circular plates in which the bottom plate is fixed and the top plate rotates at a constant angular speed $\omega$ (figure 5.1).

**Figure 5.1:** Coaxial discs system
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Problem formulation
Stability of torsional flow
Bifurcations
Appendix 1: Governing equations

Michael Renardy
1998-07-13