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Exacerbation of viscoelastic instability due to viscous heating
Ankush Kamboj, Ramkarn Patne, P. A. L. Narayana, Kirti Chandra Sahu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04617

Exacerbation of viscoelastic instability due to viscous heating
The linear stability analysis of the pressure-driven flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a plane channel is performed to examine the effects of viscous heating-induced buoyancy on the ``purely elastic instability" predicted by \citet{khalid2021continuous} (Phys. Rev. Lett., 2021, 127, 134502). We do not impose any external heating; rather, the temperature increase in the system is solely due to the viscous heating generated by the flow of a highly viscous fluid, which induces buoyancy. This buoy…