Some exact solutions for the rotational flow of Oldroyd-B fluid between two circular cylinders

• Main Authors: Saif Ullah, Najeeb Alam Khan, Sana Bajwa, Nadeem Alam Khan, Muhammad Tanveer, Kausar Liaqat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-08-01
• Series: Advances in Mechanical Engineering
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814017724702

In this article, an effort has been made to compute and inspect the rotational flow of Oldroyd-B fluid between two co-axial circular cylinders. As novelty, the rotation of both cylinders produces motion of the fluid. The velocity field and tangential stress corresponding to the motion of an Oldroyd-B fluid with fractional derivatives have been obtained using Laplace and Hankel integral transforms. The velocity profiles of the respective model are graphically presented and deliberated for the pertinent parameters. Corresponding solutions are also obtained for ordinary Oldroyd-B fluid, ordinary and fractional Maxwell fluids, ordinary and fractional second-grade fluids, and Newtonian fluid as limiting cases of our general solutions.