A NOTE ON THE UNSTEADY FLOW OF A VISCO-ELASTIC MAXWELL FLUID THROUGH A RECTILINEAR PIPE

Subject Areas : International Journal of Mathematical Modelling & Computations

R. Dube ¹

1 - Faculty of Science, Jazan University, Jazan, KSA Department of Mathematics

Received: 2016-04-13 Accepted : 2016-04-13 Published : 2011-09-23

Keywords: Laplace Transform method, Rectilinear pipe, visco-elastic Maxwell fluid, variable separable method,

Abstract :

The unsteady flow of a visco-elastic Maxwell fluid through a rectilinear pipe having its cross-section as a parallelogram under the influence of a axial pressure gradient (I) varying linearly with time , and (II) decreasing exponentially with time has been discussed in the present paper. Variables separable and Laplace transform methods have been used to solve the problem.