A Series Solution of the Unsteady Von Kármán Swirling Viscous Flows

A new analytic technique is applied to solve the unsteady viscous flow due to an infinite rotating disk, governed by a set of two fully coupled nonlinear partial differential equations deduced directly from the exact Navier-Stokes equations. The system of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations is replaced by a sequence of uncoupled systems of linear ordinary differential equations. Different from all other previous analytic results, our series solution is accurate and valid for all time in the whole spatial region. Accurate expressions for skin friction coefficients are given, which are valid for all time. Such kind of series solutions have not been reported, to the best of our knowledge.