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IMPACT OF VARIABLE LIQUID PROPERTIES ON PERISTALTIC MECHANISM OF CONVECTIVELY HEATED JEFFREY FLUID IN A SLIPPERY ELASTIC TUBE
B.B. Divyaa
, G. Manjunathaa,†
, C. Rajashekhara, Hanumesh Vaidyab, K.V. Prasadc
a Department of Mathematics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India
b Department of Mathematics, SSA Government First Grade College (Autonomous), Ballari, Karnataka, 583101, India
c Department of Mathematics, Vijayanagara Srikrishnadevaraya University, Ballari, Karnataka, 583105, India
† Corresponding author. Email: gudekote_m@rediffmail.com
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2019, 12, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.12.15
Abstract
The present paper examines the peristaltic mechanism of a Jeffrey fluid through an elastic tube. The influence of velocity slip, convective boundary
conditions, and variable liquid properties are taken into account. Closed form solutions are obtained for velocity, flux and temperature fields. In order
to linearize the temperature equation, perturbation technique is employed. Also, the flux is determined theoretically via Rubinow and Keller and
Mazumdar approach and the results are compared graphically. The effects of various vital parameters on the fluid flow are sketched and analyzed
graphically. The findings emphasize the importance of elastic parameters in enhancing the flux of a non-Newtonian fluid. Moreover, a rise in the
variable viscosity results in an increase in the velocity and temperature, whereas a drop in the flux is observed. Trapping phenomena reveals an
increase in the volume of the bolus for increasing values of the variable viscosity and velocity slip parameter.
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Divya, B., Vaidya, H., Prasad, K. (2019). IMPACT OF VARIABLE LIQUID PROPERTIES ON PERISTALTIC MECHANISM OF CONVECTIVELY HEATED JEFFREY FLUID IN A SLIPPERY ELASTIC TUBE.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 12(1), 1–9.