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journal contribution
posted on 1994-01-01, 00:00 authored by Michael RenardyAbstract: "We consider the stability of steady flows of viscoelastic fluids of Jeffreys type. For sufficiently small Weissenberg numbers, but arbitrary Reynolds numbers, it is proved that the flow is stable to small disturbances if the spectrum of the linearized operator is in the left half plane."