7.3 Viscoelastic Fluid and Flow
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f
³
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O
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K
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1
20
1
2
2
1
0
2
1
1
(7.3.40)
Again, an equivalent form via a differential equation:
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§
w
w
w
w
tt
Ȗ
Ȗ
IJ
IJ
201
OKO
(7.3.41)
In Eqs. (7.3.38) to (7.3.41), we used
0
K
as the zero shear rate viscosity.
These linear viscoelastic constitutive equations derived from general-
ized Maxwell and Jeffreys models are based on the idea that flows undergo
infinitesimal displacement gradients. However, flows with large displace-
ment gradients are found to be more realistic in practice, and constitutive
equations are obtained on the basis of large displacement gradients that are
found to be more appropriate in comparison with experiments. Also, some
molecular theories, such as Bird et al., (1987 vol. 2), suggest very strongly
that it is more appropriate to adopt the concept of large displacement gra-
dients. Owing to these reasons, it is thought to take a fairly large displace-
ment gradient into consideration in order to construct a viscoelastic consti-
tutive equation.
An admissible viscoelastic constitutive equation would be obtained
from a thought of relative strain tensor
IC,Ȗ
c
1
tt
R
given in Eq. (1.4.6),
where
1
C
is the Finger tensor.
R
Ȗ
, a symmetric tensor, contains informa-
tion about the orientations of the three principle axes of stretch ratios and
the magnitudes of the three principle stretch ratios. It should be kept in
mind, as verified in Section 1.4, that
1
C
itself does not contain informa-
tion about the rotation of material lines that occurs during the deformation.
With the argument introducing the relative strain tensor
R
Ȗ
in a viscoe-
lastic constitutive equation, we shall replace
tt
,Ȗ
in Eq. (7.3.37) with
tt
R
c
,Ȗ
, to give
³
³
f
f
ccc
c
c
t
R
t
tdttttM
tdttMt
),(Ȗ
ICIJ
1
(7.3.42)
The model of Eq. (7.3.42) is referred to as a Lodge network (rubberlike)
liquid and has a linear dependence on the history of a relative strain tensor,
although a relative strain tensor is itself nonlinear in the displacement gradi-
ents. In this sense, the model may be regarded as quasi-linear. By adopting
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