Abstract
This paper analyses peristaltic flow of a couple stress fluid in a channel through a porous medium in the presence of an external magnetic field. The flow is induced by sinusoidal traveling waves along the walls of the channel. The nonlinear convective acceleration terms are duly considered and a perturbation technique is used to solve the problem for the case of small amplitude ratio. The effects of couple-stress parameter, magnetic parameter and permeability parameter on mean velocity on the channel walls, mean axial velocity and critical reflux condition are discussed in detail. Computational results show that the mean velocity at the boundary decreases with increasing couple stress parameter and permeability parameter while it increases with magnetic parameter. It is also revealed that mean axial velocity decreases with increasing couple stress parameter and magnetic parameter while it increases with permeability parameter.
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