International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 13 (1990), Issue 1, Pages 93-113
doi:10.1155/S0161171290000138
Hodographic study of non-Newtonian MHD aligned steady plane fluid flows
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor, Ontario, Windsor N9B 3P4, Canada
Received 22 May 1989
Copyright © 1990 P. V. Nguyen and O. P. Chandna. 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.
Abstract
A study is made of non-Newtonian HHD aligned steady plane fluid flows to find exact solutions for various flow configurations. The equations of motion have been transformed to the hodograph plane. A Legendre-transform function is used to recast the equations in the hodograph plane in terms of this transform function. Solutions for various flow configurations are obtained. Applications are investigated for the fluids of finite and infinite electrical conductivity bringing out the similarities and contrasts in the solutions of these types of fluids.