Abstract
In this paper, we study the long time behavior of solutions to a class of the third grade fluid equations in R3. We first show that the solutions decay to zero if the initial data uo E L2(1. 3). Then, applying Fourier splitting method and decay character r*, we establish the upper and lower bounds of time decay rate in L2 -norm for the solutions. 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.