Peristaltic motion of a power-law fluid in an asymmetric channel
The flow of a power-law fluid is investigated in an asymmetric channel caused by the movement of peristaltic waves with the same speed but with different amplitudes and phases on the flexible walls of the channel. The differential equation governing the flow is non-linear and can admit non-unique solutions. There exist two different physically meaningful solutions one satisfying the boundary conditions at the upper wall and the other at the lower wall. The effects of the power-law nature of the fluid on the pumping characteristics and axial velocity are studied in detail.
Abstract In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of solutions for a non-autonomous strongly damped wave equation. We first prove the existence of a uniform attractor for the equation with a translation compact driving force and then obtain an upper estimate for the Kolmogorov e -entropy of the uniform attractor. Finally we obtain an upper bound of the fractal dimension of the uniform attractor with quasiperiodic force.