MHD viscous flow between torsionally oscillating disks

The unsteady motion of an incompressible, viscous, stratified fluid between two parallel infinite disks maintained at different temperatures is studied under the influence of a uniform transverse magnetic field. The whole system is under rigid rotation in the initial state and perturbations are created by the small amplitude torsional oscillations of the disks. The time required for the transient velocity and temperature to decay is found for various ranges of the values of the forcing frequency of the disks. The steady state velocity and temperature distributions represent boundary layers on the disks and an interior flow. The interplay between the Hartmann number and the Ekman number in determining the boundary layers on the disks is discussed.