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Flows of viscoelastic fluids at high Weissenberg number exhibit sharp stress boundary layers and complicated singularities at corners of the domain. The paper reviews recent progress in understanding the analytical nature of high Weissenberg number flows and associated singularities.
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Renardy, M. (1999). High Weissenberg Number Asymptotics and Corner Singularities in Viscoelastic Flows. In: Durban, D., Pearson, J.R.A. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Non-linear Singularities in Deformation and Flow. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4736-1_2
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