MHD Couette flow of a viscous stratified fluid of large conductivity

The MHD Couette flow of a viscous stratified fluid of large electrical conductivity with suction and injection at the plane boundaries is studied when the plane boundaries are maintained at different temperatures. The Oseen type governing equations are formulated using the method suggested by Greenspan for stratified fluids. Introducing the similarity variables, the linearised equations are solved to obtain the velocity and temperature distributions. The results show that the behaviour of velocity and temperature in fluids of large conductivity is different from the behaviour of velocity and temperature for fluids of finite conductivity. The effect of the magnetic field on the load capacity is investigated for the case when the width of the channel is small.     

Influence of moving magnetic field on three dimensional Couette flow

A three dimensional steady fully developed MHD Couette flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid is analysed. The lower stationary porous plate is subjected to a periodic injection velocity and the upper porous plate in uniform motion to a constant suction velocity. A magnetic field of uniform strength applied normal to the planes of the plates is fixed with the moving plate. Neglecting the induced magnetic field, an approximate solution for the flow field is obtained and discussed with the help of graphs.     

Influence of moving magnetic field on three dimensional Couette flow

A three dimensional steady fully developed MHD Couette flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid is analysed. The lower stationary porous plate is subjected to a periodic injection velocity and the upper porous plate in uniform motion to a constant suction velocity. A magnetic field of uniform strength applied normal to the planes of the plates is fixed with the moving plate. Neglecting the induced magnetic field, an approximate solution for the flow field is obtained and discussed with the help of graphs.     

Transformation of the perturbation equations for the analysis of magnetohydrodynamic couette flow stability

Summary The eigenvalue problem of the MHD stability analysis for nondissipative Couette flow between coaxially rotating cylinders in the presence of a uniform axial magnetic field, is transformed to one for the modified Mathieu equation with complex parameter and variable.

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Zusammenfassung Das Eigenwertproblem der MHD Stabilitätsanalyse für eine nichtdissipative Couette-Strömung zwischen koaxialen rotierenden Zylindern in Anwesenheit eines axialen Magnetfeldes wird in ein Eigenwertproblem für die modifizierte Mathieu-Gleichung mit komplexem Parameter und komplexer Variablen transformiert.

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Supported in part by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.     

Time-dependent MHD Couette flow in a porous annulus

This study presents the solution for the MHD transient Couette flow in an annulus formed by two concentric porous cylinders of infinite length. The fluid flow is induced by either the impulsive or the accelerated movements of the outer cylinder. A uniform magnetic field is assumed to be applied perpendicular to the direction of flow. General solution of the governing equations is obtained using a combination of Laplace transform and the Riemann-sum approximation method of Laplace inversion. The expressions for the skin friction at the two walls are obtained in both cases. The variations of the velocity and the skin friction with respect to the Hartmann number and suction/injection parameter have been discussed. It is found out that suction accelerates the flow whereas injection retards the flow.     

精确的磁流体动力学汇流解析解

就一个特殊的磁流体动力学(MHD)流动,即速度幂指数为-1时的汇流,得到著名的Falkner-Skan方程精确的解析解.解析解是封闭的,并有多重解分支.分析了磁场参数和壁面伸长参数的影响.发现了有趣的速度分布现象:即使壁面固定,回流区域依然出现.在一个罕见的FalknerSkan MHD流动中,得到了一组解,以精确封闭的解析公式表示,极大地丰富了著名的Falkner-Skan方程的解析解,也加深了对这重要又有趣方程的理解.     

Comment on: “Fundamental flows with nonlinear slip conditions: exact solutions”, by R. Ellahi,T. Hayat,F. M. Mahomed and A. Zeeshan,Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 61 (2010) 877–888

In their article (Fundamental flows with nonlinear slip conditions: exact solutions, R. Ellahi, T. Hayat, F. M. Mahomed and A. Zeeshan, Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 61 (2010) 877–888.), the authors considered three simple cases of the steady flow of a third grade fluid between parallel plates with slip conditions; namely, Couette flow, Poiseuille flow, and generalized Couette flow. They obtained exact solutions, which were utilized in a way that did not lead to useful results. Their conclusion that the Couette flow cannot be obtained from the generalized Couette flow, by dropping the pressure gradient, is incorrect. Meaningful results based on their solution are herein presented.     

Comment on: “Fundamental flows with nonlinear slip conditions: exact solutions”, by R. Ellahi, T. Hayat, F. M. Mahomed and A. Zeeshan, Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 61 (2010) 877–888

In their article (Fundamental flows with nonlinear slip conditions: exact solutions, R. Ellahi, T. Hayat, F. M. Mahomed and A. Zeeshan, Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 61 (2010) 877–888.), the authors considered three simple cases of the steady flow of a third grade fluid between parallel plates with slip conditions; namely, Couette flow, Poiseuille flow, and generalized Couette flow. They obtained exact solutions, which were utilized in a way that did not lead to useful results. Their conclusion that the Couette flow cannot be obtained from the generalized Couette flow, by dropping the pressure gradient, is incorrect. Meaningful results based on their solution are herein presented.     

计及Hall和离子滑移电流的旋转流体在与时间相关初值条件下的MHDCouette流动

考虑Hall和离子滑移电流的影响,在旋转系统中研究导电流体非稳定的MHD Couette流动．在小数值磁场Reynolds数假定下,推导出基本的控制方程,使用著名的Laplace变换技术,数值地求解该基本方程．分两种情况:磁场相对于流体或者移动平板固定时,得到速度和表面摩擦力统一的闭式表达式．用图形讨论了问题的不同参数,对速度和表面摩擦力的影响．所得结果显示,主流速度u和次生速度v随着Hall电流而增大．离子滑移电流的增大,也会导致主流速度u的增大,但会使次生速度v减小．还给出了旋转、Hall和离子滑移参数的综合影响,确定了次生运动对流体流动的贡献．     

Pressure in MHD/Brinkman flow past a stretching sheet

This paper deals with the pressure in a steady two-dimensional/axisymmetric MHD/Brinkman flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid over a flat stretching sheet. The stretching rate of the two-dimensional case is assumed as double the stretching rate of the axisymmetric case in order to compare them by means of a unified scale. A recently proposed approximate analytic technique Kumaran et al. [1] was used to recover an exact solution of the two-dimensional case and developed an approximate analytical solution of the axisymmetric case by Kumaran and Tamizharasi [2]. In this paper, the pressure distribution of the MHD and the porous medium cases are plotted and compared. In the MHD case, the pressure distribution is finite. Also, the pressure distribution is totally different in the outer boundary layer for the two-dimensional and the axisymmetric cases.     

Numerical study of the Couette flow of a diatomic rarefied gas

The Couette flow is numerically studied using a model kinetic equation for a diatomic rarefied gas (nitrogen). The boundary condition set on the wall takes into account that the molecular rotational energy passes into translational energy when the molecule interacts with the wall. For comparison purposes, the Couette flow is computed using the classical diffuse model of the gas-wall interaction. A comparison of the results obtained with both types of boundary conditions shows that the computed parameters of the Couette flow coincide only for sufficiently low Knudsen numbers. This suggests that transitions between rotational and translational energy in the gas-wall interaction have to be taken into account in the boundary condition.     

Unsteady MHD two-phase Couette flow of fluid–particle suspension

The problem of two-phase unsteady MHD Couette flow between two parallel infinite plates has been studied taking the viscosity effect of the two phases into consideration. Unified closed form expressions are obtained for the velocities and the skin frictions for both cases of the applied magnetic field being fixed to either the fluid or the moving plate. The novelty of this study is that we have obtained the solution of the unsteady flow using the Laplace transform technique, D’Alemberts method and the Riemann-sum approximation method. The solution obtained is validated by assenting comparisons with the closed form solutions obtained for the steady states which have been derived separately and also by the implicit finite difference method. Graphical result for the velocity of both phases based on the semi-analytical solutions are presented and discussed. A parametric study of some of the physical parameters involved in the problem is conducted. The skin friction for both the fluid and the particle phases decreases with time on both plates until a steady state is reached, it is also observed to decrease with increase in the particle viscosity on the moving plate while an opposite behaviour has been noticed on the stationary plate.     

Observations on the Role of Vorticity in the Stability Theory of Wall Bounded Flows

The linearized equations for the evolution of disturbances to four wall bounded flows are treated. The flows are plane Couette flow and plane Poiseuille flow, Hagen-Poiseuille pipe flow, and the asymptotic suction profile. By looking at the vorticity it is proved simply that plane Couette flow and Hagen-Poiseuille flow are linearly stable. Further study is made of the structure of the disturbance equation by the introduction of a special vorticity adjoint.     

Analysis of quasi-steady acceleration in circular Couette flow

The effect of inner cylinder acceleration in the transition from circular Couette flow to Taylor vortex regime was numerically investigated. The solution of the eigenvalue problem when the Couette flow was perturbed allowed the determination of the relationship between the inner cylinder acceleration rate and the acceleration time duration expressed in terms of viscous diffusion time. The analysis of the numerical results also allowed the concept of quasi-steady acceleration in the Couette system to be qualitatively described.     

球Couette流的数值模拟

该文利用谱方法对同心旋转球间轴对称Couette流进行数值模拟.给出Navier Stokes方程的流函数涡度形式,利用Stokes流把边界条件齐次化, 选取Stokes算子的特征函数做为逼近子空间的基函数,对同心旋转球间轴对称Couette流进行谱逼近     

多重尺度法在平面Couette流稳定性分析中的应用*

本文用文[3]所建议的多重尺度法分析了经过修正的平面Couette流动的线性稳定性性质。在平面Couette流的分析中,用多重尺度法可以找到不稳定的Tollmien-Schlichting波,但却不能找到最不稳定的模态,通过与文[3]相比较,本文对这种方法进行了探讨。     

Comparison of the simplified and full MHD models for laminar incompressible flow past a circular cylinder

In the majority of research on incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows, the simplified model with the low magnetic Reynolds number assumption has been adopted because it reduces the number of equations to be solved. However, because the effect of flow on magnetic field is also neglected, the solutions of the simplified model may be different from those of the full model. As an example, the flow of an electrically conducting fluid past a circular cylinder under a magnetic field is investigated numerically using the simplified and full models in this paper. To solve the problems, two second-order compact finite difference algorithms based on the streamfunction-velocity formulation of the simplified model and the quasi-streamfunction-velocity formulation of the full model are developed respectively.Numerical simulations are carried out over a wide range of Hartmann number for steady-state laminar problems with both models. For the full model, magnetic Reynolds number (Re_m) is chosen from 0.01 to 10. The computed results show that solutions of the simplified MHD model are not exactly the same as those of the full MHD model for this flow problem in most cases even if Re_m in the full model is very low. Only in the special case that a strong external magnetic field is exerted perpendicular to the dominant flow direction, can the simplified MHD model be regarded as an approximation of the full MHD model with low Re_m.     

DNS of stochastically forced laminar plane Couette flow

Background of three dimensional hydrodynamic/vortical fluctuations in a stochastically forced, laminar, incompressible, plane Couette flow is simulated by direct numerical simulations (DNS). It was found that the fluctuating field has well pronounced peculiarities: (i) The hydrodynamic fluctuations exhibits non–exponential, transient growth; (ii) Streamwise non–constant fluctuations with the characteristic length scale of the order of the channel width are predominant in the fluctuating spectrum; (iii) Existence of coherent structures in the fluctuating background; (iv) Stochastic forcing breaks the spanwise reflection symmetry (inherent to the linear and full Navier–stokes equations in a case of the Couette flow) and inputs an asymmetry on dynamical processes. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Stability analysis of the plane Couette flow for a model kinetic equation

The stability of the plane Couette flow is studied using the simplified Boltzmann equation (the BGK equation) in which the high modes in the space of velocities and coordinates are truncated. The solution to the Navier-Stokes equation with small additional terms depending on the Knudsen number is used as the stationary solution. We assume that the perturbations depend only on the coordinate that is orthogonal to the flow. The density perturbations are assumed to be nonzero. In this approximation, the problem is found to be unstable in the case of small Knudsen numbers.     

Flow of fluids with microstructure between parallel plates—I

The basic equations for fluids with microstructure are applied to the steady flow between two parallel plates under the action of a constant pressure gradient. The flow is governed by a microstructure parameter α*. The classical flow is recovered when α* → ∞, while maximum effects of microstructure correspond to α* → 0. For a Poiseuille flow, the microstructure fluid exhibits resistance to motion greater than or equal to that of the classical flow. For a Couette flow it is shown that for a given applied velocity to the moving plate, the shearing stress at the plate is greater than or equal to that corresponding to the classical flow situation. For a Generalised Couette flow, it is shown that for a given pressure gradient in the direction of flow, the flow is retarded; while for an adverse pressure gradient the back flow is controlled.