Existence and regularity of pullback attractors for an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid with delays
Authors: Zhao Caidi , Zhou Shengfan , Li Yongsheng 
Published: April 2015

This paper studies an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid with delays in two-dimensional bounded domains. We first prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions. Then we establish the existence of pullback attractors
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