General Solution for Free Convection of Viscous Fluid Near an Infinite Isothermal Vertical Plate that Applies a Shear Stress to the Rotating Fluid

Abstract

An analysis is carried out to the unsteady free convection flow of a rotating, incompressible viscous fluid near an infinite vertical plate that applies a time-dependent shear stress f(t) to the fluid. General solutions of the dimensionless governing equations along with imposed initial and boundary conditions are determined using Laplace transform technique. At the final stage, the effects of pertinent parameters on the fluid motion are numerically and graphically illustrated. A comparison between the numerical values of the velocity components given by the analytical solution and, by the Stehfest's algorithm for the inverse Laplace transform is presented.