Instantaneous solvent term in a relaxation modulus
ID: instantaneous-solvent-term-in-a-relaxation-modulus
For a linear viscoelastic fluid, write the solvent stress explicitly as , or use the displayed kernel with a causal endpoint delta satisfying . If a symmetric delta is integrated with half its weight at the endpoint, its coefficient must instead be . Mixing those conventions loses a factor of two. The Oldroyd-B model has the displayed exponentially decaying polymer part after linearization.
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