Natural oscillations of a rotating spherical fluid layer of variable depth

Small harmonic oscillations of the free surface of a thin fluid layer covering a rotating sphere are considered. The fluid is in the central field of sphere gravity and is exposed to the centrifugal and Coriolis forces. It is assumed that the fluid layer depth is independent of the longitude. In this formulation the problem is governed by a differential equation with singular coefficients that generalizes the Laplace tidal equation. The method of local separation of singularities is applied to integrate this equation. The solutions obtained are compared with the corresponding modes of the Laplace tidal equation, that is, the solutions of the problem for a fluid layer of constant depth.     

The Stokes boundary layer for a power-law fluid

We develop semi-analytical, self-similar solutions for the oscillatory boundary layer (‘Stokes layer’) in a semi-infinite power-law fluid bounded by an oscillating wall (the so-called Stokes problem). These solutions differ significantly from the classical solution for a Newtonian fluid, both in the non-sinusoidal form of the velocity oscillations and in the manner at which their amplitude decays with distance from the wall. In particular, for shear-thickening fluids the velocity reaches zero at a finite distance from the wall, and for shear-thinning fluids it decays algebraically with distance, in contrast to the exponential decay for a Newtonian fluid. We demonstrate numerically that these semi-analytical, self-similar solutions provide a good approximation to the flow driven by a sinusoidally oscillating wall.     

Dual solutions of Casson fluid flows over a power-law stretching sheet

A steady boundary layer flow of a non-Newtonian Casson fluid over a power-law stretching sheet is investigated. A self-similar form of the governing equation is obtained, and numerical solutions are found for various values of the governing parameters. The solutions depend on the fluid material parameter. Dual solutions are obtained for some particular range of these parameters. The fluid velocity is found to decrease as the power-law stretching parameter β in the rheological Casson equation increases. At large values of β, the skin friction coefficient and the velocity profile across the boundary layer for the Casson fluid tend to those for the Newtonian fluid.     

Viscous boundary layers in flows through a domain with permeable boundary

The effect of small viscosity on nearly inviscid flows of an incompressible fluid through a given domain with permeable boundary is studied. The Vishik–Lyusternik method is applied to construct a boundary layer asymptotic at the outlet in the limit of vanishing viscosity. Mathematical problems with both consistent and inconsistent initial and boundary conditions at the outlet are considered. It is shown that in the former case, the viscosity leads to a boundary layer only at the outlet. In the latter case, in the leading term of the expansion there is a boundary layer at the outlet and there is no boundary layer at the inlet, but in higher order terms another boundary layer appears at the inlet. To verify the validity of the expansion, a number of simple examples are presented. The examples demonstrate that asymptotic solutions are in quite good agreement with exact or numerical solutions.     

Self-similar solutions of non-Newtonian fluid boundary layer in MHD

The self-similar solutions of the boundary layer for a non-Newtonian fluid in MHD were considered in [1, 2] for a power-law velocity distribution along the outer edge of the layer and constant electrical conductivity through the entire flow. However, the MHD flows of many conducting media, which are solutions or molten metals, cannot be described by the MHD equations for non-Newtonian fluids.The self-similar solutions of the boundary layer for a non-Newtonian fluid without account for interaction with the electromagnetic field were studied in [3].In the following we present the self-similar solutions for the boundary layer of pseudoplastic and dilatant fluids with account for the interaction with an electromagnetic field for the case of a power-law velocity distribution along the outer edge of the layer, when the conductivity of the fluid is constant throughout the flow and the magnetic Reynolds number is small.Izv. AN SSSR. Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 77–82, 1967The author wishes to thank S. V. Fal'kovich for his interest in this study.     

Heat transfer to an underlying fluid due to the axisymmetric spreading of material on the surface

Similarity boundary layer solutions are found for the fluid underlying an axisymmetric spreading material layer. Three thermal boundary conditions for the fluid-material interface are considered, corresponding to constant temperature interface, adiabatic interface with heat source at origin, and constant heat flux interface. The boundary layer thickness is proportional to the distance from origin. Physical significance is discussed.     

Wall Boundary Layers for Maxwell Liquids

Flows of viscoelastic liquids at high Weissenberg number exhibit stress boundary layers near walls. These boundary layers are caused by the memory of the fluid: while particles at the wall remain in their position, particles at some distance from the wall move a long distance within one relaxation time if the Weissenberg number is high. Since the stresses depend on the flow history, this causes a steep boundary layer to form. A rescaling of the variables exploiting the thinness of this boundary layer can be used to derive a reduced set of boundary layer equations. This paper addresses the question of existence of solutions for these boundary layer equations. Using an implicit function argument, we prove the existence of a large class of solutions which arise from spatially periodic perturbations of uniform shear flow. The solutions we find can be characterized by the shear rate outside the boundary layer, which can be prescribed arbitrarily. Accepted: September 27, 1999     

Symmetries of boundary layer equations of power-law fluids of second grade

A modified power-law fluid of second grade is considered. The model is a combination of power-law and second grade fluid in which the fluid may exhibit normal stresses, shear thinning or shear thickening behaviors. The equations of motion are derived for two dimensional incompressible flows, and from which the boundary layer equations are derived. Symmetries of the boundary layer equations are found by using Lie group theory, and then group classification with respect to power-law index is performed. By using one of the symmetries, namely the scaling symmetry, the partial differential system is transformed into an ordinary differential system, which is numerically integrated under the classical boundary layer conditions. Effects of power-law index and second grade coefficient on the boundary layers are shown and solutions are contrasted with the usual second grade fluid solutions.     

Waves due to an oscillatory pressure on a stratifield fluid: A uniformly valid asymptotic solution

The three-dimensional axisymmetrical initial-value problem of waves in a two-layered fluid of finite depth by an oscillatory surface pressure is solved. The exact integral solutions for velocity potentials of each layer and wave elevations at the surface and interface are obtained. The uniform asymptotic analysis of the unsteady state of waves is carried out when lower fluid is of infinite depth.     

Investigation of the Relative Motion of a Viscous Fluid and a Porous Medium Using the Brinkman Equations

Exact solutions are obtained for the following three problems in which the Brinkman filtration equations are used: laminar fluid flow between parallel plane walls, one of which is rigid while the other is a plane layer of saturated porous medium, motion of a plane porous layer between parallel layers of viscous fluid, and laminar fluid flow in a cylindrical channel bounded by an annular porous layer.     

Convective heat transfer in a locally heated plane incompressible fluid layer

The problem of convection in a plane horizontal layer of incompressible fluid with rigid boundaries when the temperature is constant on the lower boundary and has a parabolic profile on the upper boundary can be reduced to solution of a system of time-dependent one-dimensional equations. An analytic solution of the problem is obtained directly at the extremum point. Together with the wellknown solutions which describe heat transfer for the linear temperature distribution on the boundaries, the results obtained make it possible to calculate the heat flux through a thin slit for an arbitrary given heating of a thin fluid layer between heat-conducting bodies.     

Rotating electroosmotic flow of an Eyring fluid

A perturbation analysis is presented in this paper for the electroosmotic(EO) flow of an Eyring fluid through a wide rectangular microchannel that rotates about an axis perpendicular to its own. Mildly shear-thinning rheology is assumed such that at the leading order the problem reduces to that of Newtonian EO flow in a rotating channel, while the shear thinning effect shows up in a higher-order problem.Using the relaxation time as the small ordering parameter,analytical solutions are deduced for the leading-as well as first-order problems in terms of the dimensionless Debye and rotation parameters. The velocity profiles of the Ekman–electric double layer(EDL) layer, which is the boundary layer that arises when the Ekman layer and the EDL are comparably thin, are also deduced for an Eyring fluid. It is shown that the present perturbation model can yield results that are close to the exact solutions even when the ordering parameter is as large as order unity. By this order of the relaxation time parameter, the enhancing effect on the rotating EO flow due to shear-thinning Eyring rheology can be significant.     

Injection and suction of an upper-convected maxwell fluid through a porous-walled tube

The steady-state, similarity solutions of the flow of an upper-convected Maxwell fluid through a tube with a porous wall are constructed by asymptotic and numerical analyses as functions of the direction of flow through the tube, the amount of elasticity in the fluid, as measured by the Deborah number De, and the degree of fluid slip along the tube wall. Fluid slip is assumed to be proportional to the local shear stress and is measured by a slip parameter β that ranges between no-slip (β = 1) and perfect slip (β = 0). The most interesting results are for fluid injection into the tube. For β = 1, the family of flows emanating from the Newtonian limit (De = 0) has a limit point where it turns back to lower values of De. These solutions become asymptotic to De = 0) and develop an O(De) boundary layer near the tube wall with singularly high stresses matched to homogeneous elongational flow in the core. This solution structure persists for all nonzero values of the slip parameter. For β ≠ 1, a family of exact solutions is found with extensional kinematics, but nonzero shear stress convected into the tube through the wall. These flows differ for low De from the Newtonian asymptote only by the absence of the boundary layer at the tube wall. Finite difference calculations evolve smoothly between the Newtonian-like and extensional solutions because of approximation error due to under-resolution of the boundary layer. The radial gradient of the axial normal stress of the extensional flow is infinite at the centerline of the tube for De > 1; this singularity causes failure of the finite difference approximations for these Deborah numbers unless the variables are rescaled to take the asymptotic behavior into account.     

Solutions similaires pour un problème de couches limites en milieux poreux

We consider heat transfer from a surface embedded in an unbounded porous medium, saturated with a fluid at rest. A thermal boundary-layer approximation, based on the assumption that convection takes place in a thin layer around the heating surface, is done. The use of boundary layer technics show that we can find similarity solutions by solving a one-dimensional boundary value problem, involving a third-order nonlinear differential equation depending on a parameter. We prove existence and uniqueness results for some values of the parameter, non-existence for the other ones, and when it is possible, we construct explicit solutions.     

Plane and axi-symmetric stagnation flow of a Maxwellian fluid

Exact solutions to the plane and axi-symmetric stagnation flows of a Maxwellian fluid including inertia are reported. It is found that the fluid elasticity decreases the boundary layer thickness.     

MHD effect of mixed convection boundary-layer flow of Powell-Eyring fluid past nonlinear stretching surface

Sufficient conditions are found for the existence of similar solutions of the mixed convection flow of a Powell-Eyring fluid over a nonlinear stretching permeable sur- face in the presence of magnetic field. To achieve this, one parameter linear group trans- formation is applied. The governing momentum and energy equations are transformed to nonlinear ordinary differential equations by use of a similarity transformation. These equations are solved by the homotopy analysis method （HAM） to obtain the approximate solutions. The effects of magnetic field, suction, and buoyancy on the Powell-Eyring fluid flow with heat transfer inside the boundary layer are analyzed. The effects of the non- Newtonian fluid （Powell-Eyring model） parameters ε and δon the skin friction and local heat transfer coefficients for the cases of aiding and opposite flows are investigated and discussed. It is observed that the momentum boundary layer thickness increases and the thermal boundary layer thickness decreases with the increase in ε whereas the momentum boundary layer thickness decreases and thermal boundary layer thickness increases with the increase in δ for both the aiding and opposing mixed convection flows.     

Nonlinear three-dimensional stretched flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid with convective condition,thermal radiation,and mixed convection

The effect of non-linear convection in a laminar three-dimensional Oldroyd-B fluid flow is addressed. The heat transfer phenomenon is explored by considering the non-linear thermal radiation and heat generation/absorption. The boundary layer assumptions are taken into account to govern the mathematical model of the flow analysis. Some suitable similarity variables are introduced to transform the partial differential equations into ordinary differential systems. The Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg fourth-and fifth-order techniques with the shooting method are used to obtain the solutions of the dimensionless velocities and temperature. The effects of various physical parameters on the fluid velocities and temperature are plotted and examined. A comparison with the exact and homotopy perturbation solutions is made for the viscous fluid case, and an excellent match is noted. The numerical values of the wall shear stresses and the heat transfer rate at the wall are tabulated and investigated. The enhancement in the values of the Deborah number shows a reverse behavior on the liquid velocities. The results show that the temperature and the thermal boundary layer are reduced when the nonlinear convection parameter increases. The values of the Nusselt number are higher in the non-linear radiation situation than those in the linear radiation situation.     

Natural convection in an inclined enclosure with a fluid layer and a heat-generating porous bed

Multiple steady-state solutions of natural convection in an inclined enclosure with a fluid layer and a heat-generating porous bed is investigated numerically by the finite volume method. The conservation equations for the porous layer are based on a general flow model which includes both the effects of flow inertia and friction. The flow in fluid layer is modeled by Navier–Stokes equations. The method of pseudo arc-length continuation is adapted in studying the effects of tilt angle on flow pattern and heat transfer. It is found that, in the whole domain of tilt angle, there exist two groups of solutions with quite different flow pattern and heat transfer behavior. The effects of aspect ratio on flow pattern and heat transfer have also been studied. Received on 04 March 1997     

Stagnation-point flow of couple stress fluid with melting heat transfer

Melting heat transfer in the boundary layer flow of a couple stress fluid over a stretching surface is investigated. The developed differential equations are solved for homotopic solutions. It is observed that the velocity and the boundary layer thickness are decreasing functions of the couple stress fluid parameter. However, the temperature and surface heat transfer increase when the values of the couple stress fluid parameter increase. The velocity and temperature fields increase with an increase in the melting process of the stretching sheet.     

Axisymmetric flow and heat transfer of the Carreau fluid due to a radially stretching sheet: Numerical study

The prime objective of this article is to study the axisymmetric flow and heat transfer of the Carreau fluid over a radially stretching sheet. The Carreau constitutive model is used to discuss the characteristics of both shear-thinning and shear-thickening fluids. The momentum equations for the two-dimensional flow field are first modeled for the Carreau fluid with the aid of the boundary layer approximations. The essential equations of the problem are reduced to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by using local similarity transformations. Numerical solutions of the governing differential equations are obtained for the velocity and temperature fields by using the fifth-order Runge–Kutta method along with the shooting technique. These solutions are obtained for various values of physical parameters. The results indicate substantial reduction of the flow velocity as well as the thermal boundary layer thickness for the shear-thinning fluid with an increase in the Weissenberg number, and the opposite behavior is noted for the shear-thickening fluid. Numerical results are validated by comparisons with already published results.