Non-Newtonian effects in the peristaltic flow of a Maxwell fluid

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2001-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107076v1

Phys. Rev. E, 64, 036303 (2001)

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

to Appear in Phys. Rev. E., 01 September 2001 issue

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.036303

We analyzed the effect of viscoelasticity on the dynamics of fluids in porous media by studying the flow of a Maxwell fluid in a circular tube, in which the flow is induced by a wave traveling on the tube wall. The present study investigates novelties brought about into the classic peristaltic mechanism by inclusion of non-Newtonian effects that are important, for example, for hydrocarbons. This problem has numerous applications in various branches of science, including stimulation of fluid flow in porous media under the effect of elastic waves. We have found that in the extreme non-Newtonian regime there is a possibility of a fluid flow in the direction {\it opposite} to the propagation of the wave traveling on the tube wall.

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