Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 42651, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/42651
Research Article
On the Steady Flow of a Second-Grade Fluid between Two Coaxial Porous Cylinders
Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Gümüşsuyu, Istanbul 34437, Turkey
Received 8 February 2007; Accepted 3 June 2007
Academic Editor: Kumbakonam Rajagopal
Copyright © 2007 M. Emin Erdoğan and C. Erdem İmrak. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
An exact solution of an incompressible second-grade fluid for flow between two
coaxial porous cylinders is given. The velocity profiles for various values of the cross-Reynolds
number and the elastic number are plotted. It is found that for large values of the cross-Reynolds
number, the velocity variation near boundaries shows a different behaviour than that of the
Newtonian fluid.