Title

Peristaltic pumping of a Herschel-Bulkley fluid in a channel

Authors

Authors

K. Vajravelu; S. Sreenadh;V. R. Babu

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Appl. Math. Comput.

Keywords

EXISTENCE; Mathematics, Applied

Abstract

Peristaltic transport of Herschel-Bulkley fluid in a channel is investigated. The effects of yield stress and wave amplitude on the pumping characteristics are obtained and discussed. It is observed that for Herschel-Bulkley fluid, the peristaltic wave passing over the channel wall pumps more fluid against pressure rise compared to a power-law fluid. Furthermore, the results for trapping phenomena are obtained and discussed for Newtonian, Bingham, power-law and Herschel-Bulkley fluids. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volume

169

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

726

Last Page

735

WOS Identifier

WOS:000232698000052

ISSN

0096-3003

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