Flow of a viscous incompressible fluid between two parallel plates, one in uniform motion and the other at rest with uniform suction at the stationary plate

Abstract

In the present paper an exact solution of the Navier-Stoke’s equations reduced to third and second order non-linear differential equations with appropriate boundary conditions is obtained. The longitudinal and transverse velocity profiles for λ=0·1, 1 and R=100 are drawn. It is noted that for large values of$\bar x$, an adverse pressure gradient is developed which causes a back flow.

There is increase in pressure even for very small fluid suction along the stationary plate. The skin friction and the flow coefficient decrease with reference to the suction velocity and the distance along the stationary plate. For λ=0, the results transform to the known results for plane couette flow without suction.