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Jan 2, 2015 at 19:59 answer added D. S. Park timeline score: 2
Nov 7, 2014 at 11:18 comment added Michael Renardy I would be highly suspicious of such a model. Biological fluids are usually close to incompressible. In that case the matrix A is traceless and therefore definitely NOT positive definite!
Nov 7, 2014 at 8:59 comment added Willie Wong In the fluids literature, the symmetric part of the velocity gradient is usually called the "rate of deformation tensor" or the "velocity strain" tensor. Your $A$ is the negative of that.
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