Exact Solution of Some Helical Flows of Newtonian Fluids

This paper deals with the helical flow of a Newtonian fluid in an infinite circular cylinder, due to both longitudinal and rotational shear stress. The velocity field and the resulting shear stress are determined by means of the Laplace and finite Hankel transforms and satisfy all imposed initial and boundary conditions. For large times, these solutions reduce to the well-known steady-state solutions.

Authors:

• Imran Siddique

Keywords:

• Newtonian fluids
• Velocity field
• Exact solutions
• Shear stress
• Cylindrical domains.

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