Polymer Flow

•  ”Collocation and Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Viscoelastic Fluid Flow - I. Description of Method and Problems with Fixed Geometry. ” (With Ping Wu Chang and Thomas W. Patten) Comp. Fluids 7:267-283. 1979.>

•  ”Collocation and Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Viscoelastic Fluid Flow - II. Die Swell Problems with a Free Surface" ” (With Ping Wu Chang and Thomas W. Patten) Comp. Fluids 7. pp. 285-293. 1979.

•  ”Galerkin and Collocation Finite Element Methods for Newtonian and Viscoelastic Fluids” (with P. W. Chang. T. W. Patten, F. T. Adams).  pp. 119-138 in Recent Advances in Numerical Methods in Fluids, V. 1, ed. C. Taylor and K. Morgan.  Swansea, U.S.:  Pineridge Press, 1980.

• “Prediction of Hole Pressure Measurement” (with N. R. Jackson).  pp. 337-346 in Vol. II, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems.  D. H. Norrie (ed.).  Banff, Alberta, Canada.  1980.

•  ”Calculations of Hole Pressure - I.  Newtonian Fluids” (with Nancy R. Jackson).  Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics.  10.  pp. 55-69.  1982.

•  “Calculations of Hole Pressure - II.  Viscoelastic Fluids” (with Nancy R. Jackson).   Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics  10.  pp. 71-84.  1982.

• “Mathematical Modelling of Polymer Flows.” (with Nazime Y. Tuna).  pp. 363-370 in Finite Element Flow Analysis.  T. Kawai, ed.  Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Finite Elements in Flow Problems.  University of Tokyo Press.  1982.

•  “Squeezing Flow of Elastic Liquids” (with M. A. McClelland)  Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics  23:181-201.  1983.

•  “Exit Pressure Calculations From Numerical Extrudate Swell Results”  (with N. Y. Tuna)  J. Rheol.  28:79-93.  1984.

•   “Reflections on the Numerical Viscoelastic Flow Problem”  (with Sue L. Josse), Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics,  16:13-36.  1984.

• “Stability of Polymer Flows,” pp. 107-111.  Proc. Int. Symp. Finite Elements Flow Prob., University of Texas, Jan. 23-26, 1984.

• “Non-isothermal Extrudate Swell of Elastic Liquids,” (with M. A. McClelland), pp. 269-287, Ch. 13, in Numerical Methods in Heat Transfer, Vol. III (R. W. Lewis, ed.)  Wiley, 1985.

•   “Stability of Plane Poiseuille and Couette Flow of a Maxwell Fluid,”  (with K. C. Lee)  Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 21:65-78.  1986.

•   “False Bifurcations and Instability of a Maxwell Fluid in Fully Developed Flow,” (with Sue L. Josse and K. C. Lee).  J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech.  20:257-269.  1986.

•   “Corrections for the Non-Isothermal Hole Pressure Problem” (with R. Srinivasan) J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech. 27:1-15.  1988.

•  “Exit Pressure Experiments for Low Density Polyethylene Melts” (with N. Y. Tuna) J. Rheology 32:285-308.  1988.

•  “Squeezing Flow of Highly Viscous Polymers (with M. A.McCelland)  J. Rheology, 32:101-133.  1988.

•  “Heat Transfer Effects in Extrudate Swell of Elastic Liquid (with M. A. McClelland) J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 27:363-374.  1988.

• “On the Quality of Viscoelastic Flow Solutions,” (with R. R. Rao and T. A. Baer) pp.266-273 of Computational Methods in Flow Analysis (Niki, H. and Kawahara, M., ed.) Okayama University of Science, 1988.

•  Heat Transfer to Spheres from a Polymer Melt, Westerberg, K. W. and Finlayson, B. A., Num. Heat Trans., Part A, 17 329-348 (1990).

•  Rao, R. R. and Finlayson, B. A., “On the Quality of Viscoelastic Flow Solutions: An Adaptive Refinement Study of a Newtonian and a Maxwell Fluid,” Int. J. Num. Methods Fluids, 11 571-585 (1990).

• Adaptive refinement of a viscoelastic flow problem with the explicitly elliptic momentum equation (with Rao, R. R.). J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech., 38 223-246 (1991).

•  Rao, R. R. and Finlayson, B. A., “Adaptive Refinement of One-dimensional Viscoelastic Problem”, Comm. Appl. Num. Methods 8 41-49 (1992).

•  Viscoelastic flow simulation using cubic stress finite elements(with Rao, R. R.), J. Non. New. Fluid Mech. 43, 61-82 (1992).

•  Baer, T. A. and Finlayson, B. A., “Comparison of Numerical Simulations of Polymer Flow with Experimental Data,” Theoretical and Applied Rheology, (P. Moldenaers and R. Keunings, ed.), 247-249 (1992).

• Bruce A. Finlayson, "Using Comsol Multiphysics to Model Viscoelastic Fluid Flow", Proceedings of the Comsol Users' Conference 2006 Boston.