MHD Flow of a 2nd Grade Fluid in an Orthogonal Rheometer

Rao, A. Ramachandra and Rao, P. Raghupathi (1985) MHD Flow of a 2nd Grade Fluid in an Orthogonal Rheometer. In: International Journal of Engineering Science, 23 (12). pp. 1387-1395.

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Abstract

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flow of a conducting, homogeneous incompressible Rivlin-Ericksen fluid of second grade contained between two infinite, parallel, insulated disks rotating with the same angular velocity about two noncoincident axes, under the application of a uniform transverse magnetic field, is investigated. This model represents the MHD flow of the fluid in the instrument called an orthogonal rheometer, except for the fact that in the rheometer the rotating plates are necessarily finite. An exact solution of the governing equations of motion is presented. The force components in the x and y directions on the disks are calculated. The effects of magnetic field and the viscoelastic parameter on the forces are discussed in detail.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	International Journal of Engineering Science
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	The copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	12 Nov 2009 11:43
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:31
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/20142

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