Exact solutions for the flow of non-Newtonian fluid with fractional derivative in an annular pipe

Generally speaking, rheological properties of materials are specified by their so-called constitutive equations. The simplest constitutive equation for a fluid is a Newtonian one, on which the classical Navier-Stokes theory is based. The mechanical behavior of many fluids is well described by this theory. However, there are many rheologically compli- cated fluids such as polymer solutions, blood and heavy oils which are inadequately de- scribed by a Newtonian constitutive equation that does …     

Multi-layer flows of immiscible fractional Maxwell fluids in a cylindrical domain

Laminar unsteady multilayer axial flows of fractional immiscible Maxwell fluids in a circular cylinder are investigated. The flow of fluids is generated by a time-dependent pressure gradient in the axial direction and by the translational motion of a cylinder along his axis. The considered mathematical model is based on the fractional constitutive equation of Maxwell fluids with Caputo time-fractional derivatives. Analytical solutions for the fractional differential equations of the velocity fields with boundary and interfaces conditions have been determined by using the Laplace transform coupled with the Hankel transform of order zero and the Weber transform of order zero. The influence of the memory effects on the motion of the fluid has been investigated for the particular case of three fractional Maxwell fluids. It is found that for increasing values of the fractional parameter the fluid velocity is decreasing. The memory effects have a stronger influence on the velocity of the second layer.     

Maxwell fluid flow between vertical plates with damped shear and thermal flux: Free convection

In this article, we studied free convection flow of Maxwell fluid between two parallel plates a distance d apart from each other. The Caputo time-fractional derivative is used in model and the model is fractionalized through mechanical laws (generalized shear stress constitutive equation and generalized Fourier's law). Closed form solutions are found by means of Laplace and sine-Fourier transforms which are suitable for our boundary conditions. The solutions are expressed in the form of Mittag–Leffler function and generalized G–function of Lorenzo and Hartley. The viscous fractional and ordinary Maxwell and fractional model are presented as special cases. The effects of fractional and physical parameters are graphically illustrated.     

Exact Solutions for the Flow of Fractional Maxwell Fluid in Pipe-Like Domains

This paper presents an analysis of unsteady flow of incompressible fractional Maxwell fluid filled in the annular region between two infinite coaxial circular cylinders. The fluid motion is created by the inner cylinder that applies a longitudinal time-dependent shear stress and the outer cylinder that is moving at a constant velocity. The velocity field and shear stress are determined using the Laplace and finite Hankel transforms. Obtained solutions are presented in terms of the generalized G and R functions. We also obtain the solutions for ordinary Maxwell fluid and Newtonian fluid as special cases of generalized solutions. The influence of different parameters on the velocity field and shear stress is also presented using graphical illustration. Finally, a comparison is drawn between motions of fractional Maxwell fluid, ordinary Maxwell fluid and Newtonian fluid.     

Multi-layer flows of immiscible fractional Maxwell fluids with generalized thermal flux

Unsteady laminar flows and heat transfer of n-immiscible fractional Maxwell fluids in a channel are investigated under influence of time-dependent pressure gradient. The isothermal channel walls have translational motions in their planes with time-dependent velocities. Governing equations of the mathematical model are based on the generalized constitutive equations for shear stress and thermal flux described by the time-fractional Caputo derivative. Analytical and semi-analytical solutions for velocity, shear stress, and temperature fields are obtained by using finite sine-Fourier and Laplace transforms. In the case of semi-analytical solutions, the inverse Laplace transforms are obtained numerically by employing the Talbots algorithms. Using the software Mathcad, numerical calculations have carried out and results are presented in graphical illustrations in order to analyze the memory effects on the fluid temperature and motion. It is found that in fluids with thermal memory the heat transfer is slower compared with the ordinary fluid, while the fractional velocity parameters act as braking/accelerating factors of the fluids.     

Effect of slip boundary condition on flow and heat transfer of a double fractional Maxwell fluid

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the flow and heat transfer of a double fractional Maxwell fluid with a second order slip model. The fractional governing equations are solved numerically by using the finite difference method. By comparing the analytical solutions of special boundary conditions, the validity of the present numerical method is examined. The effects of the two slip parameters and the fractional parameters on the velocity and temperature distribution are presented graphically and discussed. The results reveal that the fractional Maxwell fluid exhibits a stronger viscosity or elasticity for different fractional parameters, and the oscillation phenomenon will gradually decrease as expected with an increase in slip parameters.     

Axisymmetric convection flow of fractional Maxwell fluid past a vertical cylinder with velocity slip and temperature jump

A novel finite volume method is developed to investigate the axisymmetric convection flow and heat transfer of fractional viscoelastic fluid past a vertical cylinder. Fractional cylindrical governing equations are formulated by fractional Maxwell model and generalized Fourier's law. The velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions are considered across the fluid-solid interface. Numerical results are validated by exact solutions of special case with source terms. The effects of fractional derivative parameter and boundary condition parameters on flow and heat transfer characteristics are discussed. The viscoelastic fluid performs evident shear thickening property in the fractional Maxwell constitutive relation. Moreover, the boundary condition parameters have remarkable influence on velocity and temperature distributions.     

Fractional dual solutions to the Maxwell equations in chiral nihility medium

Solutions which seem as the dual solutions to the original solution of the Maxwell equations for chiral nihility medium are listed. Using operators composed of fractional curl, solutions to the Maxwell equations which may be regarded as intermediate step between the original solution and dual to the original solution are determined. Dual solutions which are not valid have been pointed out.     

Ricci flat rotating black branes with a conformally invariant Maxwell source

We consider Einstein gravity coupled to an U(1) gauge field for which the density is given by a power of the Maxwell Lagrangian. In d-dimensions the action of Maxwell field is shown to enjoy the conformal invariance if the power is chosen as d/4. We present a class of charge rotating solutions in Einstein-conformally invariant Maxwell gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant. These solutions may be interpreted as black brane solutions with inner and outer event horizons or an extreme black brane depending on the value of the mass parameter. Since we are considering power of the Maxwell density, the black brane solutions exist only for dimensions which are multiples of four. We compute conserved and thermodynamics quantities of the black brane solutions and show that the expression of the electric field does not depend on the dimension. Also, we obtain a Smarr-type formula and show that these conserved and thermodynamic quantities of black branes satisfy the first law of thermodynamics. Finally, we study the phase behavior of the rotating black branes and show that there is no Hawking–Page phase transition in spite of conformally invariant Maxwell field.     

Self-Similar Asymptotics for the Boltzmann Equation with Inelastic and Elastic Interactions

We consider some questions related to the self-similar asymptotics in the kinetic theory of both elastic and inelastic particles. In the second case we have in mind granular materials, when the model of hard spheres with inelastic collisions is replaced by a Maxwell model, characterized by a collision frequency independent of the relative speed of the colliding particles. We first discuss how to define the n-dimensional (n = 1,2,...) inelastic Maxwell model and its connection with the more basic Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres. Then we consider both elastic and inelastic Maxwell models from a unified viewpoint. We prove the existence of (positive in the inelastic case) self-similar solutions with finite energy and investigate their role in large time asymptotics. It is proved that a recent conjecture by Ernst and Brito devoted to high energy tails for inelastic Maxwell particles is true for a certain class of initial data which includes Maxwellians. We also prove that the self-similar asymptotics for high energies is typical for some classes of solutions of the classical (elastic) Boltzmann equation for Maxwell molecules. New classes of (not necessarily positive) finite-energy eternal solutions of this equation are also studied.     

Non-Maxwell slippage induced by surface roughness for microscale gas flow: a molecular dynamics simulation

Rarefied gas flows in rough microchannels are investigated by non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The surface roughness is modelled by an array of triangular modules. The Maxwell slip model is found to break down due to the surface roughness for gas flows in microchannels with large surface roughness. Non-Maxwell slippage shows that the slip length is smaller than that predicted by the Maxwell model and is nonlinearly related to the mean free path. For larger surface roughness and smaller Knudsen number, the non-Maxwell effect becomes more pronounced. The boundary conditions, generally including velocity slip, no-slip and negative slip, depend not only on the Knudsen number but also on the surface roughness. Simulation results show that A/λ?≈?1 is a good criterion to validate the no-slip boundary condition and A/λ?>?0.3 can be a criterion to judge the occurrence of non-Maxwell slippage, where A is the surface roughness size and?λ?is the mean free path of gas molecules. The permeability enhanced by the surface roughness may be responsible for the roughness-induced non-Maxwell slippage.     

Analytical and semi-analytical solutions to flows of two immiscible Maxwell fluids between moving plates

Unsteady flows of two immiscible Maxwell fluids in a rectangular channel bounded by two moving parallel plates are studied. The fluid motion is generated by a time-dependent pressure gradient and by the translational motions of the channel walls in their planes. Analytical solutions for velocity and shear stress fields have been obtained by using the Laplace transform coupled with the finite sine-Fourier transform. These analytical solutions are new in the literature and the method developed in this paper can be generalized to unsteady flows of n-layers of immiscible fluids. By using the Laplace transform and classical method for ordinary differential equations, the second form of the Laplace transforms of velocity and shear stress are determined. For the numerical Laplace inversion, two accuracy numerical algorithms, namely the Talbot algorithm and the improved Talbot algorithm are used.     

Flows of a generalized second grade fluid in a cylinder due to a velocity shock

Unsteady axial flows of second grade fluids with generalized fractional constitutive equation in a circular cylinder are studied. Flows are generated by a time-dependent pressure gradient in the axial direction, an external magnetic field perpendicular on the flow direction and by the cylinder motion. Two different problems are analyzed; one in which the cylinder velocity supports a shock at the instant t = 0 and another in which the cylinder motion is a translation with time-dependent velocity along the axis of cylinder. The generalized fractional constitutive equation of second grade fluid is described by the Caputo time-fractional derivative. Analytical solutions for the velocity field are obtained by using the Laplace transform with respect to time variable and the finite Hankel transform of order zero with respect to the radial coordinate. The influence of the fractional parameter of Caputo derivative on the fluid velocity has been studied by numerical simulations and graphical illustrations. It is found that the fractional fluid flows are faster than the ordinary second grade fluid.     

Electromagnetic waves in a plane wave background

Source-free Maxwell equations are equivalent to the scalar wave equation. Most of its solutions are singular at infinity. If the nail eigenvector of the background metric is an eigenvector of the Maxwell field, too, the e.m. field is not changed by the plane wave.     

A Lattice Boltzmann Kinetic Model for Microflow and Heat Transfer

In this paper, we propose a lattice Boltzmann BGK model for simulation of micro flows with heat transfer based on kinetic theory and the thermal lattice Boltzmann method (He et al., J. Comp. Phys. 146:282, 1998). The relaxation times are redefined in terms of the Knudsen number and a diffuse scattering boundary condition (DSBC) is adopted to consider the velocity slip and temperature jump at wall boundaries. To check validity and potential of the present model in modelling the micro flows, two two-dimensional micro flows including thermal Couette flow and thermal developing channel flow are simulated and numerical results obtained compare well with previous studies of the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC), molecular dynamics (MD) approaches and the Maxwell theoretical analysis     

The “Two and One–Half Dimensional” Relativistic Vlasov Maxwell System

The motion of a collisionless plasma is modeled by solutions to the Vlasov–Maxwell system. The Cauchy problem for the relativistic Vlasov–Maxwell system is studied in the case when the phase space distribution function f = f(t,x,v) depends on the time t, and . Global existence of classical solutions is obtained for smooth data of unrestricted size. A sufficient condition for global smooth solvability is known from [12]: smooth solutions can break down only if particles of the plasma approach the speed of light. An a priori bound is obtained on the velocity support of the distribution function, from which the result follows. Received: 18 March 1996/Accepted: 29 July 1996     

Unsteady MHD flow and heat transfer of fractional Maxwell viscoelastic nanofluid with Cattaneo heat flux and different particle shapes

The paper aims to investigate the unsteady natural convection flow and heat transfer of fractional Maxwell viscoelastic nanofluid in magnetic field over a vertical plate. The effect of nanoparticle shape is first introduced to the study of fractional Maxwell viscoelastic nanofluid. Fractional shear stress and Cattaneo heat flux model are applied to construct the governing boundary layer equations of momentum and energy, which are solved numerically. The quantities of physical interest are graphically presented and discussed in detail. It is found that particle shape and fractional derivative parameters have profound influence on the flow and heat transfer.     

Fractional Spin of System with Chern–Simons Term Coupled to Polaron

The fractional spin of a system with Chern–Simons (CS) term coupled to a polaron at the quantum level is studied. The Faddeev–Senjanovic (FS) scheme for path-integral quantization of constrained Hamiltonian systems is applied. The quantal conserved angular momentum and the fractional spin at the quantum level of this system are presented based on the quantal Noether theorem. The fractional spin is also presented for the system with Maxwell kinetic term.     

Solution of collinear cracks in an electrostrictive solid

A general treatment is presented of the two-dimensional problem of N collinear cracks in an infinite electrostrictive material subjected to remote electric loads based on the complex variable method combined with analytical extension of the complex variable functions. First, for the case of permeable cracks, general solutions for the electric potentials, Maxwell stresses, electroelastic stresses and stress intensity factors are derived. As specific examples, explicit and concise results are obtained for the cases of one crack and two collinear cracks. Then, these results are extended to the cases of impermeable and conducting collinear cracks, respectively. It is found that, in general, the total stresses always have the classical singularity of the r ^{- 1/2} type at the crack tips, whereas the Maxwell stresses have an r ^{- 1} singularity for the above three crack models. Finally, it is concluded that the applied electric field may either enhance or retard crack growth depending on the electric boundary conditions adopted on the crack faces, and the Maxwell stresses on the crack faces and at infinity.