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Flow of a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet

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This paper presents a study of the flow of an incompressible second-order fluid past a stretching sheet. The problem has a bearing on some polymer processing application such as the continuous extrusion of a polymer sheet from a die.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 15261, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    K. R. Rajagopal

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 48128, Dearborn, MI, USA

    T. Y. Na

  3. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, 721302, Kharagpur, India

    A. S. Gupta

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Rajagopal, K.R., Na, T.Y. & Gupta, A.S. Flow of a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet. Rheol Acta 23, 213–215 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01332078

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