Flow of a binary mixture of incompressible Newtonian fluids in a rectangular channel

Abstract

The problems concerning some simple steady and unsteady flows of a mixture composed of two incompressible Newtonian fluids in an infinitely long channel of rectangular cross-section are examined. By means of finite Fourier sine transforms, the exact solutions of the field equations are obtained for the following four problems: (i) steady Couette flow in a rectangular channel, (ii) unsteady Couette flow In a rectangular channel, (iii) steady Poiseuille flow in a rectangular channel, (iv) unsteady Polseuille flow in a rectangular channel. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.