Adams and Olmsted Reply:

A Reply to the Comment by Shi-Qing Wang.

Figure 1

Startup transients for (left) a cone angle of 4° ($q=2\times {10}^{-3}$); and (right) a flat geometry with noisy initial polymer shear stress ${\Sigma }_{xy}(0)$ of a few percent, with $\dot{\gamma }{\tau }_d=14.8$, $\beta =0.728$ and $ϵ={10}^{-5}$, and ${\tau }_d/{\tau }_R={10}^3$.

Figure 2

Recoil displacement (b) at $t=0.08{\tau }_d$ after cessation of homogeneous shear (a) at $t_{\mathrm{stop}}=0.0375{\tau }_d$ with $\dot{\gamma }{\tau }_d=80$, i.e., $\gamma =3$ for the Rolie-Poly model with $\beta =0.728$, $ϵ={10}^{-5}$, and $q=0$, with initial noise.