Mathematical modelling of ciliary propulsion of an electrically-conducting Johnson-Segalman physiological fluid in a channel with slip

N. Manzoor, O. Anwar Bég, K. Maqbool and S. Shaheen

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2019, vol. 22, issue 7, 685-695

Abstract: Bionic systems frequently feature electromagnetic pumping and offer significant advantages over conventional designs via intelligent bio-inspired properties. Complex wall features observed in nature also provide efficient mechanisms which can be utilized in biomimetic designs. The characteristics of biological fluids are frequently non-Newtonian in nature. In many natural systems super-hydrophobic slip is witnessed. Motivated by these phenomena, in this paper, we discussed a mathematical model for the cilia-generated propulsion of an electrically-conducting viscoelastic physiological fluid in a ciliated channel under the action of magnetic field. The rheological behavior of the fluid is simulated with the Johnson-Segalman constitutive model which allows internal wall slip. The regular or coordinated movement of the ciliated edges (which line the internal walls of the channel) is represented by a metachronal wave motion in the horizontal direction which generates a two-dimensional velocity profile. This mechanism is imposed by a periodic boundary condition which generates propulsion in the channel flow. Under the classical lubrication approximation, the boundary value problem is non-dimensionalized and solved analytically with a perturbation technique. The influence of the geometric, rheological (slip and Weissenberg number) and magnetic parameters on velocity, pressure gradient and the pressure rise (evaluated via the stream function in symbolic software) are presented graphically and interpreted at length.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2019.1582033

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