Open Journal of Applied Sciences
Vol.4 No.3(2014), Article ID:43476,11 pages DOI:10.4236/ojapps.2014.43010

Stokes First Problem for an Unsteady MHD Third-Grade Fluid in a Non-Porous Half Space with Hall Currents

Haider Zaman, Arif Sohail, Ubaidullah

Faculty of Numerical Sciences, Islamia College University, Peshawar, Pakistan

Email: haiderzaman67@yahoo.com

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Received 6 January 2014; revised 11 February 2014; accepted 20 February 2014

ABSTRACT

The well-known problem of unidirectional plane flow of a fluid in a non-porous half-space due to the impulsive motion of the rigid plane wall it rests upon is discussed in the context of an unsteady MHD third-grade fluid in presence of Hall currents. The governing non-linear partial differential equations describing the problem are converted to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations by using the similarity transformations. The complex analytical solution is found by using the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The existing literature on the topic shows that it is the first study regarding the effects of Hall current on flow of an unsteady MHD third-grade fluid over an impulsively moving plane wall. The convergence of the obtained complex series solutions is carefully analyzed. The effects of dimensionless parameters on the velocity are illustrated through plots and the effects of the pertinent parameters on the local skin friction coefficient at the surface of the wall are presented numerically in tabular form.

Keywords:Stokes First Problem; Hall Currents; Unsteady; Third-Grade Fluid; HAM

1. Introduction

Almost every student of fluid mechanics is familiar with Stokes’ first problem [1] , the flows over a plane wall which is initially at rest and is suddenly set into motion in its own plane with a constant velocity is termed as Stokes’ first (or Rayleigh-type) problem [2] [3] . Teipel [4] discussed impulsive motion of a flat plate in a viscoelastic fluid. Puri [5] investigated impulsive motion of a flat plate in a Rivlin-Ericksen fluid. Erdogan [6] analyzed plane surface suddenly set in motion in a non-Newtonian Fluid. Zeng and Weinbaum [7] investigated Stokes problems for moving half-planes. Tan and Xu [8] [9] investigated Stokes’ first problem not only for generalized second grade fluid but also for generalized Maxwell fluid. Erdogan [10] analyzed the unsteady unidirectional flows generated by impulsive motion of a boundary or sudden application of a pressure gradient. Fetecau and Fetecau [11] solved Stokes’ first problem for ordinary Oldroyd-B fluid by sine transform. Stokes’ first problem for Oldroyd-B and second grade fluid in a porous half space is studied by Tan and Masuoka [12] [13] . Zierep and Fetecau [14] gave energetic balance for the Rayleigh-Stokes problem of a second grade fluid. Zierep et al. [15] discussed Rayleigh-Stokes problem for non-Newtonian medium with memory. Vieru et al. [16] found exact solution corresponding to the first problem of Stokes for Oldroyd-B fluid. Stokes’ first problem for the rotating flow of a third grade fluid is numerically solved by Shahzad et al. [17] . Hayat et al. [18] presented numerical solution of Stokes’ first problem for a third grade fluid in a porous half space. Fakhari et al. [19] presented a note on the interplay between symmetries, reduction and conservation laws of Stokes’ first problem for third-grade rotating fluids. Sajid et al. [20] discussed Stokes’ first problem for a MHD third grade fluid in a porous half space. The theoretical study of the effects of Hall current on flow of non-Newtonian fluids has been a subject of great interest to researchers because of its various applications in power generators and pumps, Hall accelerators, refrigeration coils, electric transformers, in flight MHD, solar physics involved in the sunspot development, the solar cycle, the structure of magnetic stars, electronic system cooling, cool combustors, fiber and granular insulation, oil extraction, thermal energy storage and flow through filtering devices and porous material regenerative heat exchangers. In presence of a strong magnetic field in an ionized gas of low density, the conductivity normal to the magnetic field is decreased by free spiraling of electrons and ions about the magnetic lines of force before suffering collisions. The phenomenon, well known in the literature, is called the Hall effect and a current induced in a direction normal to the electric and magnetic fields is called Hall current [21] . The Hall term representing the Hall current was ignored most of the time while applying Ohm’s law, because it has no markable effect for small and moderate values of the magnetic field. The effects of Hall current are very important if the strong magnetic field is applied [22] , because for strong magnetic field electromagnetic force is noticeable. The recent investigation for the applications of MHD is towards a strong magnetic field, due to which study of Hall current is important [23] -[36] .

The present investigation is to analyze the Stokes first problem for an unsteady MHD third-grade fluid in a non-porous half space with Hall currents. The arising non-linear problem is solved by the homotopy analysis method (HAM), which is a novel technique and has been used by many researchers [37] -[45] . The method gives more realistic complex analytic solution which is uniformly valid for all values of the dimensionless time. The convergence region for the complex series solution is found with the help of. The effects of the material parameters of the third-grade fluid, Hall parameter, Hartmann number and homotopy parameter on the velocity and its time series are investigated for the impulsive motion of the wall. When we introduce Hall currents in the problem then velocity field becomes complex and it has two parts, real and imaginary. It is not possible to plot complex velocity as a whole on the real plane, but to analyze the flow we plot real and imaginary parts separately. Sometimes our graphs for real and imaginary parts of velocity look likes that they are not satisfying boundary conditions, but it is not true because we are not plotting the complete solution, we are taking either real part or imaginary part of the solution.

2. Mathematical Formulation of the Problem

We consider the unsteady flow of an electrically conducting incompressible third-grade fluid past a rigid plane wall coinciding with the plane. The fluid over the plane wall is initially at rest and it sets in motion due to the sudden jerked of the wall subjected to a uniform transverse magnetic field. It is assumed that the flow takes place in the upper half plane with the wall on the. The Cauchy stress tensor for a third-grade fluid is given as [46]

, (1)

where is the scalar pressure, is the identity tensor, is the coefficient of viscosity, , are the material parameters of third-grade fluid, and are the first three Rivlin-Ericksen tensors defined by [46]

, (2)

. (3)

The equations governing the magnetohydrodynamic flow with Hall effect are:

Velocity field:

, (4)

Continuity equation:

, (5)

Equation of motion:

, (6)

Maxwell equations:

(7)

Generalized Ohm’s law:

, (8)

where is the velocity component in the, is time, is the total magnetic field, is the applied magnetic field, is the induced magnetic field, is the current density, is the electrical conductivity of the fluid, is the electric field, is the magnetic permeability, is the fluid density, and are the cyclotron frequency and collision time of the electrons respectively. We assume that, the quantities, and are constants throughout the flow field, the magnetic field is normal to the velocity vector and the induced magnetic field is neglected compared with the imposed magnetic field, so that the magnetic Reynolds number is small [47] . We also suppose that and (where and are the cyclotron frequency and collision time for ions respectively). The velocity is zero far from the wall and the pressure is uniform, so we neglect the pressure gradient term as the flow is the only kept in motion by the motion of the wall. Continuity Equation (5) is identically satisfied by the velocity taken in Equation (4). Under the aforementioned assumptions the unsteady Stokes first problem with Hall currents become

, (9)

The boundary and initial conditions are

, (10)

where is the kinematic viscosity, is the Hall parameter and is the velocity of the wall. In order to non-dimensionalize the problem let us introduce the similarity transformations

, (11)

where is the dimensionless velocity function, is the dimensionless distance from the wall and is the dimensionless time. Equations (9)-(11) become

, (12)

(13)

where prime denotes differentiation with respect to, is dimensionless second-grade parameter, , are dimensionless third-grade fluid material parameters and is the dimensionless modified Hartmann number [47] . The local skin friction coefficient or fractional drag coefficient on the surface of the moving wall is

, (14)

Now using Equations (1)-(4) and (11) the Equation (14) can be written in dimensionless variables as

, (15)

3. Analytic Solution with Convergence Check

The boundary conditions (13) leads us to take base functions for the velocity as

(16)

The velocity can be expressed in terms of base functions as

, (17)

To start with the homotopy analysis method, due to the boundary conditions (13) it is reasonable to choose the initial guess approximation

, (18)

and the auxiliary linear operator

, (19)

with the property:

, (20)

where and are arbitrary constants. Following the HAM and trying higher iterations with the unique and proper assignment of the results converge to the exact solution:

, (21)

At, , , , , , using the symbolic computation software such as MATLAB, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA to successively obtain

, (22)

similarly, , and so on are calculated. The obtained values of, , , …, leads us to write

. (23)

By avoiding the detailed recurrence relations which we calculated but not presenting here due to space, the total complex analytic solution in compact form is

(24)

where from initial guess in Equation (18) we obtain

. (25)

Clearly Equation (24) contains the auxiliary parameter, which gives the convergence region and rate of approximation for the homotopy analysis method. For this purpose, the is plotted for the dimensionless velocity for the sudden jerked motion of the plane wall at. It is obvious from Figure 1 that the range for the admissible value for is. Our calculations depict that the series of the dimensionless velocity in Equation (24) converges in the whole region of and for.

4. Graphs, Table and Discussion

In order to discuss the effects of various parameters on the flow field the graphs are drawn for the variation of the dimensionless velocity with distance from the surface. These graphs are plotted for different values of the Hartmann number, Hall parameter, homotopy parameter, second-grade material parameter, third-grade material parameters and. Figures 2 to 7 are plotted in absence of Hall currents.

Figure 2 indicates the variation of the velocity with time at different distances from the wall. From Figure 2 it is observed that the velocity decays with the increase of the distance from the wall and also the fluid near the wall moves together with the wall with the same velocity as of the wall. Figure 3 shows that for fixed values of, , , and after the sudden jerked of the wall with increase in dimensionless time the velocity decreases at all points and decays with increase of time, boundary layer thickness decreases, which results in shear thinning effects, which are used in recognition of the fluid. Clearly the viscosity induces in the fluid with the passage of time and after some time the steady state is achieved which proves the uniform validity of the solution for all time in the whole spatial region. Figure 4 illustrates that with increase in Hartmann number the velocity decreases and boundary layer thickness also decreases at all points. When magnetic field is applied transverse to the fluid velocity then it gives rise to a drag-like or resistive force which slow down or suppress the motion of the fluid on the wall. This leads to a reduction in the velocity of the fluid as seen in Figure 4. Figure 5 demonstrate the velocity changes with distance from the wall

Figure 1. for.                                 

Figure 2. Influence of on.                         

Figure 3. Influence of on.                              

Figure 4. Influence of on.                      

at given points and. It is clearly seen that the smaller the, the more rapidly the velocity changes very close to the wall and the more like a solid the third grade fluid behaves. After velocity decreases, indicating larger apparent viscosity for third-grade fluid. Figure 6 displays that for fixed values of,

Figure 5. Influence of on.                      

Figure 6. Influence of on.                      

Figure 7. Influence of on.                    

, , and with increase in third-grade material parameter the velocity and boundary layer thickness decreases at all points. Figure 7 illustrates that for fixed values of, , , and with increase in third-grade material parameter the velocity and boundary layer thickness decreases. Inclusion of Hall current makes the velocity field complex, so we plot real and imaginary parts of the velocity to see the effects of Hall current on the flow field. Figure 8 describes that for fixed values of, , , , and with increase in Hall parameter real part of the velocity decreases in magnitude, boundary layer thickness increases, which results in shear thickening effects. Figure 9 shows that for fixed values of, , , , and with increase in Hall parameter imaginary part of the velocity decreases in magnitude and boundary layer thickness increases.

Here the table is prepared for the variation of the absolute values of the skin friction coefficient given by Equation (15) for sudden jerked motion of the wall. The table shows the impact of the Hartmann number and Hall current with time on. It is observed from table that for fixed values of, , , and with increase in Hartmann number absolute value of the skin friction coefficient increases for all values of the time. Also for fixed values of, , , and with increase in Hall current absolute value of the skin friction coefficient decreases for all values of the time. For fixed values of, , , , and with increase in dimensionless time the absolute value of the skin friction coefficient increases at all points. When magnetic field is applied normal to the fluid velocity then it gives rise to a drag-like or resistive force which slow down or suppress the motion of the fluid on the moving surface. This leads to a reduction in the velocity of the fluid and flow rates. With the increase in the strength of the magnetic field the motion of the particulate suspension on the surface reduces due to which shear stress at the wall reduces with increase in Hall current, as observed in the Table 1.

5. Conclusion

The Stokes’ first problem of an unsteady MHD third grade fluid in a non-porous half space is discussed by tak-

Figure 8. Influence of on.                      

Figure 9. Influence of on.

Table 1. Absolute values of the skin friction coefficient with, , ,.

ing Hall currents into account. Analytical solution for the non-linear problem is given and convergence of the solution is appropriately discussed. The non-linear effect on the velocity is shown and discussed. It reveals that plots for shear thickening/shear thinning behavior of a fluid are dependent upon the rheological properties of the fluid. The numerical results for Hall parameter, Hartmann number, second-grade parameter, thirdgrade material parameters, and dimensionless time reveal that Hall parameter, Hartmann number and dimensionless time have significant influence on the local skin-friction coefficient on the surface of the impulsively moving wall.

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