Unsteady Incompressible Flow of a Generalised Oldroyed-B Fluid between Two Infinite Parallel Plates

D. Bose, U. Basu

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

DOI: 10.4236/wjm.2013.32012                

Abstract

This paper presents a study of visco-elastic flow of an incompressible generalized Oldroyd-B fluid between two infinite parallel plates in which the constitutive equation involves fractional order time derivative. The solutions of field equations are being obtained for the motion of the said fluid between two parallel plates where the lower plate starts to move with steady velocity and the upper plate remains fixed in the first problem and the upper plate oscillates with constant frequency and the other being at rest in the second problem. The exact solutions for the velocity field are obtained by using the Laplace transform and finite Fourier Sine transform technique in terms of Mittag Leffler and generalised functions. The analytical expression for the velocity fields are derived and the effect of fractional parameters upon the velocity field is depicted graphically.

Keywords

Oldroyed-B Fluid; Laplace Transform; Finite Fourier Sine Transform; Mittag Leffler Function; Generalised Function; Fractional Order Derivatives

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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