Influence of magnetic field on a curved circular plate and flat plate lubricated with non-Newtonian fluid

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a Analytical study of the effect of magnetic field on the performance of flat and curved circular plate with Non-Newtonian fluids. From the Stokes theory a Modified Reynolds equation is derived. The solution for pressure, load capacity and squeeze time is obtained to study the influence of transverse magnetic field and couple stress parameter on these characteristics. The non-dimensional pressure, load and squeeze film time is computed numerically and presented graphically. The results predicts that, the effect of Hartmann number M 0 and Non-Newtonian fluid l * is improved in pressure, load carrying capacity significantly whereas delay in squeezing time as compared to the non-magnetic(NMC) and Newtonian(NC) cases.