Unsteady Unidirectional Flow of Voigt Fluid through the Parallel Microgap Plates with Wall Slip and Given Inlet Volume Flow Rate Variations

• Main Authors: Yinwei Lin, C.K. Chen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Isfahan University of Technology 2015-01-01
• Series: Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics
• Subjects: Velocity Profile; pressure gradient; Voigt fluid; Laplace transform; Parallel microgap plates.
• Online Access: http://jafmonline.net/JournalArchive/download?file_ID=35756&issue_ID=221

In order to solve the velocity profile and pressure gradient of the unsteady unidirectional slip flow of Voigt fluid, Laplace transform method is adopted in this research. Between the parallel microgap plates, the flow motion is induced by a prescribed arbitrary inlet volume flow rate which varies with time. The velocity slip condition on the wall and the flow conditions are known. In this paper, two basic flow situations are solved, which are a suddenly started and a constant acceleration flow respectively. Based on the above solutions, linear acceleration and oscillatory flow are also considered.