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[1] truncated at the second-order. For an isotropic, incompressible second-order fluid, the total stress tensor is given by

where

is the indeterminate spherical stress due to the constraint of incompressibility,
is the -th Rivlin–Ericksen tensor,
is the zero-shear viscosity,
and are constants related to the zero shear normal stress coefficients.

References

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  1. ^ Rivlin, R. S. & Ericksen, J. L (1955). "Stress-deformation relations for isotropic materials". J. Ration. Mech. Anal. Vol. 4. Hoboken. pp. 523–532.
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