Physiological flow of Carreau fluid due to ciliary motion

Numerical Scrutinization of Three Dimensional Casson-Carreau Nano Fluid Flow

This study presents the computational analysis of three dimensional Casson and Carreau nanofluid flow concerning the convective conditions. To do so, the flow equations are modified to nonlinear system of ODEs after using appropriate self-similarity functions. The solution for the modified system is evaluated by numerical techniques. The results show the impacts of involving variables on flow c...

Peristaltic motion of a Carreau fluid in an asymmetric channel

Peristaltic transport of a fluid in channels has been a subject of great interest for the last four decades. Such interest is motivated by several applications of peristaltic flows in engineering and industry. In animals and human bodies, the physiological fluids pumped by the muscular oscillations which correspond to peristaltic activity. In particular, the flow of blood through arteries and v...

Unsteady Magnetohydrodynamic Flow of Second Grade Fluid Due to Impulsive Motion of Plate

New analytic solutions for unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows of a generalized second-grade fluid have been derived. The generalized second-grade fluid saturates the porous space. Fractional derivative is used in the governing equation. The analytical expressions for velocity and shear stress fields have been obtained by using Laplace transform technique for the fractional calculus. The o...

University of Groningen Fluid flow due to collective non-reciprocal motion of symmetrically-beating artificial cilia

Fluid flow due to collective non-reciprocal motion of symmetrically-beating artificial cilia.

Using a magneto-mechanical solid-fluid numerical model for permanently magnetic artificial cilia, we show that the metachronal motion of symmetrically beating cilia establishes a net pressure gradient in the direction of the metachronal wave, which creates a unidirectional flow. The flow generated is characterised as a function of the cilia spacing, the length of the metachronal wave, and a dim...