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Unsteady Stokes Flow of Viscous Fluid between Two Parallel Porous Plates
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Ganesh S 1, Krishnambal S 2 HOD, Department of Mathematics, Sathyabama University,Chennai [email protected] 2 Professor, Department of Mathematics, Anna University, Chennai Email : [email protected] Equation of continuity and equations of motion are

I. INTRODUCTION The two dimensional steady state laminar flow in channels with porous walls has numerous applications in various branches of Engineering and Technology such as boundary layer control and transpiration cooling problems. It plays an important role in the study of problems which involve diffusion phenomena in a flowing gas stream. Berman(1953) was the first researcher who studied the problem of steady flow of an incompressible viscous fluid through a porous channel with rectangular crosssection, when the Reynolds number is low. He obtained a perturbation solution assuming normal wall velocities to be equal. Then Sellars(1955) extended the problem studied by Berman when the Reynolds number is very high. Afterwards Yuan(1956) and Terill(1964) studied the problem for various values of suction and injection Reynolds numbers. Terill and Shrestha(1965) have analysed the same problem, assuming different normal velocities at the walls. Drake(1965) has considered the flow of an incompressible viscous fluid in a long channel of rectangular section due to a periodic pressure gradient. Bagchi(1966) has studied the unsteady flow of viscoelastic Maxwell fluid with transient pressure gradient through a rectangular channel. In this paper, we consider the unsteady flow of an incompressible viscous fluid between two parallel porous plates when there is a periodic injection at the lower plate and suction at the upper plate. Formulation of the problem: Consider the flow of incompressible fluid through two parallel porous plates y = 0 and y = h along the direction of x-axis. Assume that there is a periodic injection of velocity v1e at the lower plate and periodic suction of velocity v2 e and the pressure in the form
iwt iwt

Represents the coefficient of viscosity and density of the fluid. The boundary conditions of problem are

the the

Where h is the distance between the two parallel porous plates and v1 and v2 are constants. We introduce

y the stream function (x, y) through

so that the equation of continuity (1) is satisfied. Equations (2) and (3) give rise to

and

r iw =

p y 2 m ( ) y x y x

(7)

at the upper plate. Hence we choose the velocity vector ( q )

Partially differentiating (6) w.r.t., 'y' we get

= [ u(x, y) + v (x, y) ]eiwt and P(x, y) = p(x, y)eiwt, where u(x, y) and v(x, y) are the velocity components of the flow along the coordinate directions (x, y) respectively.

Partially differentiating (7) w.r.t., 'x' we get

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Eliminating the pressure p from the equations (8) and (9) we get

(20)

We introduce f( h ) as follows:

Pressure distribution: From equations (6), (7) and (11) we have

(22)

and uo is the average entrance velocity. \ Equation (10) can be rewritten as

From (21) and (22) we get

The arbitrary constant c is obtained as The boundary conditions on f(h ) are given by
(24)

Solving equation (12), Applying the boundary conditions on f(h ) and solving, the values of the arbitrary constants are obtained as follows.
(15)

The pressure drop is given by

DISCUSSION: The numerical values of u (x-direction) and v (y-direction)velocityprofileshavebeencalculatedfordifferent valuesofxandy. Itisassumedthat0<x<4and0<y<10.

(16) (17) (18)

Substituting the value of f(h ) in (11), the stream function is calculated. Using the expression for y and equation (5) the velocity components are determined.

(19)

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literature. The result for the axial velocity obtained here reduces to the result for the axial velocity in the case of laminar flow between parallel plates. (i.e., when v = 0). NOMENCLATURE: a, v1, v2 c1, c2, c3, c4 c5, K1 u0 h Constants Constants Arbitrary constant Average entrance velocity Height of the channel Velocity vector Pressure Axial component of velocity Radial component of velocity Stream function Function of Dimension less distance Frequency Time GREEK SYMBOLS: Figures 1(a),1(b) and 1(c) are the axial velocity profiles at different cross sections of the channel namely at x = 0, x = 2 and x = 4 when the average entrance velocity [1] is 0.5. The magnitude of the axial velocity decreases as x increases from 0 to 4.The figure 1(d) represents the axial velocity profiles of u at x=0, h=10 when the inlet velocity is increased to 1 from 0.5. It is clearly seen that the [2] magnitudes of the axial velocity u are more when the value of the inlet velocity is increased. It is also seen from p the figure 2 that the radial velocity vanishes for wt = ddd 2 and the radial velocity profiles are non-linear for the other values of wt. [3] CONCLUSION: In the above analysis a class of solutions of the unsteady stokes flow of viscous fluid between two parallel porous plates is presented, when there exists variable suction or injection at the walls. The authors presumes that the result presented here add one more class of exact solution to that of a few presently available in
2 a

r q

p u(x, y) v(x, y) (x, y) f( ) =y/h t

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