Analytical Solutions of Some Fully Developed Flows of Couple Stress Fluid between Concentric Cylinders with Slip Boundary Conditions

Abstract EN

We establish, in this paper, the closed form analytical solutions of steady fully developed flows of couple stress fluid between two concentric cylinders, generated due to the constant pressure gradient or the translatory motion of the outer cylinder or both, using the slip boundary conditions.

The classical solutions for Newtonian fluid in the hydrodynamic case appear as a limiting case of our solutions.

The velocity profiles of the flows are presented and the effect of various parameters on velocity is discussed.

The results indicate that the presence of couple stresses decreases the velocity of the fluid.