Results in Physics (Jan 2015)

Heat transfer analysis of Rabinowitsch fluid flow due to metachronal wave of cilia

  • Noreen Sher Akbar,
  • Adil Wahid Butt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2015.03.005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. C
pp. 92 – 98

Abstract

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The present investigation concerns with the mechanical properties of a Rabinowitsch fluid model and the effects of thermal conductivity over it. Flow is considered to be occurring due to metachronal wave produced as a result of constant beating of cilia at the walls of a horizontal circular tube. The expressions for flow characteristics have been derived results are analyzed graphically and discussed briefly.

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