At rest the tensor equation relaxes toward and the stretch equation relaxes toward one. Thus
The equilibrium nonpressure stress is isotropic and can be absorbed into the arbitrary pressure in incompressible flow.
For the linear response, put , and take the velocity gradient to be . The first-order tensor equation is
Its matrix trace has no forcing, because incompressibility gives . Starting relaxed, . The first-order stretch equation is , hence . Consequently , and its anisotropic stress is . From the relaxed remote past,
The linear and second-order response of the differential pom-pom model therefore has
The stretch time does not enter the linear shear relaxation modulus.
For the second-order fluid constants, additionally make the slow-flow expansion: count as first order and as raising the order by one. Iterating
gives
Using the Rivlin-Ericksen tensor convention , the identity
reduces this to . Since , normalization gives
Stretch first changes at second order. Its equation gives . Multiplication by therefore adds only an isotropic stress at second order; multiplying its second-order increment by the anisotropic first-order term would be third order. Absorb these isotropic corrections into to obtain
Comparison with the viscometric functions parametrization yields
Equivalently, in , the constants are and . The general small-amplitude linear response above permits fast oscillation; the local second-order fluid expansion also requires the slow-flow ordering just used.