Fig. 2

Component plots - Shear flow. The component plots of the second- (\(\bar {\boldsymbol {N}}\)) and fourth- (\(\bar {\mathbb {N}}\)) order orientation tensors, and of the dimensionless effective viscosity tensor (\(\bar {\mathbb {V}}^{*}\)) and of the reduced stress tensor (\(\bar {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}^{*}\)) vs. the von Mises equivalent strain rate (\(\bar {\varepsilon }_{\mathrm {M}}\)), for the case of a shear flow (a) Components of \(\bar {\boldsymbol {N}}\), shear flow (b) Components of \(\bar {\mathbb {N}}\), shear flow (c) Components of \(\bar {\mathbb {V}}^{*}\), shear flow (d) Components of \(\bar {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}^{*}\), shear flow