| A note on the falkner-skan flows of a non-newtonian fluid (1983) | |||||||||||||
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| A NOTE THE FALKNER SKAN FLOWS NON NEWTONIAN FLUID Department Mechanical Engineering RAJAGOPAL Pittsburgh Pittsburgh University Department Mathematics Indian GUPTA Technology Kharagpar India Institute and Department Mechanical Engineering Michigan Dearborn The University Abstract Non similar solutions are cslablishcd for the boundary layer flow homogeneous incompressible Ruid second grade past wedge placed symmetrically with respect the flow direction The variation the skin friction with rcspccl the non Newtonian parameters discussed INTRODUCTION recent years there has been some interest the boundary layer flows non Newtonian fluids Srivatsava and Rajeswari and Rathna investigated boundary layer flows the incompressible Rivlin Eriksen fluid second order for the stagnation flow problems Beard and Walters studied boundary layer flows more general elastico viscous fluids employing perturbation analysis Recently Rajagopal have looked the boundary layer flows fluids second grade and they point out that care has exercised such analysis which could otherwise fraught with inherent inconsistencies this paper study the Falkner Skan flows homogeneous incompressible fluid second grade the flow past wedge placed symmetrically with respect the flow direction The Cauchy stress Tin fluid second grade related the fluid motion the following manner Truesdell and PI ci where the pressure the coefficient viscosity and and material moduli which are usually referred the normal stress coefficients Th. Peer Reviewed. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25405/1/0000854.pdf | |||||||||||||
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