behaviors in large-amplitude oscillatory shear flow (LAOS), a popular flow for studying the
nonlinear physics of complex fluids. Specifically, the strain rate sweep (also called the strain
sweep) is used routinely to identify the onset of nonlinearity. By the strain rate sweep, we
mean a sequence of LAOS experiments conducted at the same frequency, performed one
after another, with increasing shear rate amplitude. In this paper, we give exact expressions …