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We present a theory to quantify the formation of spatiotemporal macrostructures (or the non-homogeneous regions of high viscosity at moderate to high fluid inertia) for viscoelastic sub-diffusive flows, by introducing a mathematically consistent decomposition of the polymer conformation tensor, into the so-called structure tensor. Our approach bypasses an inherent problem in the standard arithmetic decomposition, namely, the fluctuating conformation tensor fields may not be positive definite and hence, do not retain their physical meaning. Using well-established results in matrix analysis, the space of positive definite matrices is transformed into a Riemannian manifold by defining and constructing a geodesic via the inner product on its tangent space. This geodesic is utilized to define three scalar invariants of the structure tensor, which do not suffer from the caveats of the regular invariants (such as trace and determinant) of the polymer conformation tensor. First, we consider the problem of formulating perturbative expansions of the structure tensor using the geodesic, which is consistent with the Riemannian manifold geometry. A constraint on the maximum time, during which the evolution of the perturbative solution can be well approximated by linear theory along the Euclidean manifold, is found. A comparison between the linear and the nonlinear dynamics, identifies the role of nonlinearities in initiating the symmetry breaking of the flow variables about the centerline. Finally, fully nonlinear simulations of the viscoelastic sub-diffusive channel flows, underscore the advantage of using these invariants in effectively quantifying the macrostructures.
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