Dunn, J.E.Serrin, J.2007-08-162007-08-161983https://hdl.handle.net/11299/4431In order to model fluid capillarity effects, the Dutch physicist Korteweg formulated in 1901 a constitutive equation for the Cauchy stress that included density gradients. Specifically, Koretweg proposed for study a compressible fluid model in which the "elastic" or "equilibrium" portion of the Cauchy stress tensor T is given by