Peristaltic transport of a conducting Jeffrey fluid in an inclined asymmetric channel

    Authors

    K. Vajravelu; S. Sreenadh; G. Sucharitha;P. Lakshminarayana

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Int. J. Biomath.

    Keywords

    Peristaltic transport; Jeffrey fluid; hydromagnetic flow; asymmetric; channel; JOHNSON-SEGALMAN FLUID; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY FLUID; NEWTONIAN FLUID; MAGNETIC-FIELD; HEAT-TRANSFER; MASS-TRANSFER; POROUS SPACE; FLOW; MOTION; TUBE; Mathematical & Computational Biology

    Abstract

    Peristaltic flow of a conducting Jeffrey fluid in an inclined asymmetric channel is investigated. The channel asymmetry is produced by considering a peristaltic wave train on the flexible walls of the channel with different amplitudes and phases. The nonlinear governing equations are solved analytically by a perturbation technique. The expressions for the stream function, axial velocity and the pressure rise per wavelength are determined in terms of the Jeffrey number lambda(1), the Froude number Fr, the perturbation parameter delta, the angle of inclination theta and the phase difference phi Effects of the physical parameters on the velocity field and the pumping characteristics are discussed. It is observed that the size of the trapping bolus increase with an increase in the magnetic parameter and the volume flow rate. That is, the magnetic parameter and the volume flow rate have strong influence on the trapping bolus phenomenon.

    Journal Title

    International Journal of Biomathematics

    Volume

    7

    Issue/Number

    6

    Publication Date

    1-1-2014

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    25

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000345584100005

    ISSN

    1793-5245

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