The effect of an additional boundary condition on the plane creeping flow of a second-order fluid

A similarity solution is obtained for the two-dimensional creeping flow of a second-order fluid with non-parallel porous walls. The resulting ordinary differential equation is fifth order. Thus, an additional velocity boundary condition is needed, the other four being due to the usual no-slip conditions. Having chosen to prescribe the rate of shear at the wall, the problem is solved by a standard numerical routine. A singular perturbation analysis is developed for small values of the Deborah number. A type of boundary layer forms for which the viscous Newtonian case is the outer solution.