Rao, A. Ramachandra and Rao, P. Raghupathi (1985) MHD Flow of a 2nd Grade Fluid in an Orthogonal Rheometer. In: International Journal of Engineering Science, 23 (12). pp. 1387-1395.
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The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flow of a conducting, homogeneous incompressible Rivlin-Ericksen fluid of second grade contained between two infinite, parallel, insulated disks rotating with the same angular velocity about two noncoincident axes, under the application of a uniform transverse magnetic field, is investigated. This model represents the MHD flow of the fluid in the instrument called an orthogonal rheometer, except for the fact that in the rheometer the rotating plates are necessarily finite. An exact solution of the governing equations of motion is presented. The force components in the x and y directions on the disks are calculated. The effects of magnetic field and the viscoelastic parameter on the forces are discussed in detail.
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|Department/Centre:||Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics|
|Date Deposited:||12 Nov 2009 11:43|
|Last Modified:||19 Sep 2010 05:31|
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