Deville, MichelFiétier, Nicolas2007-05-222007-05-222007-05-22200210.1023/A:1015135016765https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/7144This paper presents the application of spectral element methods to simulate the time-dependent flow of viscoelastic fluids in non-trivial geometries using a closed-form differential constitutive equation. As an example, results relative to the flow of a FENE-CR fluid in a two-dimensional four-to-one contraction are given.text::journal::journal article::research article