Hall effect on flows of an Oldroyd-B fluid through porous medium for cylindrical geometries

✍ Scribed by T. Hayat; M. Hussain; M. Khan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 643 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-1221
• DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2006.08.018

✦ Synopsis

In this work, the equations are proposed for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a porous medium. These equations give rise to a mathematical description in which a modified Darcy's law for an Oldroyd-B fluid is taken into account with Hall effects. This particularly happens when the magnetic field is high. Four flow problems are considered:

(i) starting flow in a circular cylinder moving parallel to its length, (ii) starting flow in a circular pipe, (iii) generalized flow in a circular pipe, (iv) starting flow in a rotating cylinder.

The problems valid for a small magnetic Reynolds number are solved analytically by applying the Laplace transform method. Graphical results for the velocity are presented and are discussed for various parametric conditions.