Laminar Flow in a Uniformly Porous Channel with Large Injection

Abstract

SummaryThe author has previously discussed the flow in a two-dimensional channel with porous walls through which fluid is uniformly injected or extracted. Yuan has given a solution for high injection in which certain derivatives of the axial velocity become infinite at the centre of the channel. Physically this means that there must be a viscous layer at the centre of the channel and that Yuan’s solution is ignoring the shear layer. In this paper the complete solution for large injection is obtained by the method of inner and outer expansions and therefore includes the viscous layer. The resulting series solutions are confirmed by numerical results.