Second-order fluid

A second-order fluid is a fluid where the stress tensor is the sum of all tensors that can be formed from the velocity field with up to two derivatives, much as a Newtonian fluid is formed from derivatives up to first order. This model may be obtained from a retarded motion expansion truncated at the second-order. For an isotropic, incompressible second-order fluid, the total stress tensor is given by

${\sigma }_{ij}=-p{\delta }_{ij}+{\eta }_0{A}_{ij(1)}+{\alpha }_1{A}_{ik(1)}{A}_{kj(1)}+{\alpha }_2{A}_{ij(2)},$

where

$-p{\delta }_{ij}$ is the indeterminate spherical stress due to the constraint of incompressibility,

$A_{ij(n)}$ is the $n$-th Rivlin–Ericksen tensor,

${\eta }_0$ is the zero-shear viscosity,

${\alpha }_1$ and ${\alpha }_2$ are constants related to the zero shear normal stress coefficients.

References

• Bird, RB., Armstrong, RC., Hassager, O., Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids: Second Edition, Volume 1: Fluid Mechanics. John Wiley and Sons 1987 Template:ISBN(v.1)
• Bird R.B, Stewart W.E, Light Foot E.N.: Transport phenomena, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York, U.S.A., 1960