Effect of Rotation and Magnetic Field through Porous Medium on Peristaltic Transport of a Jeffrey Fluid in Tube.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 971456, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2011/971456 Research Article Effect of Rotation and Magnetic Field through Porous Medium on Peristaltic Transport of a Jeffrey Fluid in Tube S. R. Mahmoud1, 2 1 Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 2 Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt Correspondence should be addressed to S. R. Mahmoud, srhassan@.sa Received 8 June 2011; Accepted 25 July 2011 Academic Editor: Angelo Luongo Copyright q 2011 S. R. Mahmoud. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper is concerned with the analysis of peristaltic motion of a Jeffrey fluid in a tube with sinusoidal wave travelling down its wall. The effect of rotation, porous medium, and magnetic field on peristaltic transport of a Jeffrey fluid in tube is studied. The fluid is electrically conducting in the presence of rotation and a uniform magnetic field. An analytic solution is carried out for long wavelength, axial pressure gradient, and low Reynolds number considerations. The results for pressure rise and frictional force per wavelength were obtained, evaluated numerically, and discussed briefly. 1. Introduction The dynamics of the fluid transport by peristaltic motion of the confining walls has received a careful study in the literature. The need for peristaltic pumping may arise in circumstances where it is desirable to avoid using any internal moving parts such as pistons in a pumping process. The peristalsis is also well known to the physiologists to be one of