Peristaltic motion of a power-law fluid in an asymmetric channel

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1153-1161

  Subba Reddy, M V ^a   Ramachandra Rao, A ^b   Sreenadh, S ^c  

^a JNTU Anantapur   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Peristaltic motion; Power law fluid; Trapping

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES;

ASYMMETRIC CHANNELS; AXIAL VELOCITY; PERISTALTIC MOTION; PERISTALTIC WAVES;

CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 36048943616     PISSN: 00207462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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