TY  - EJOU
AU  - 
T1  - Unsteady Plane Couette Flow of an Incompressible Couple Stress Fluid with Slip Boundary Conditions
T2  - International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences Research

PY  - 2016
VL  - 3
IS  - 7
SN  - 2313-2752

AB  - In this work, the unsteady flow of an incompressible couple stress fluid between two parallel plates is studied. Slip boundary conditions are applied on the two plates and vanishing couple stress condition at the boundaries is assumed. The upper plate is suddenly moved with time dependent velocity while the other plate is fixed. The problem is solved analytically in the Laplace domain through the use of Laplace transform technique. The inverse transform of the fluid velocity is obtained numerically. The velocity profiles for different times and different physical parameters are plotted and the numerical results are discussed.
KW  - Couple stresses fluids
KW  - Incompressible
KW  - Couette flow
KW  - Unsteady flow
KW  - Slip boundary condition
KW  - Laplace transform.
DO  - 10.18488/journal.9/2016.3.7/9.7.85.92