Comments on: "Starting solutions for some unsteady unidirectional flows of a second grade fluid," [Int. J. Eng. Sci. 43 (2005) 781]
Fluid Dynamics
2011-12-20 v1
Abstract
A significant mathematical error is identified and corrected in a recent highly-cited paper on oscillatory flows of second-grade fluids [Fetecau & Fetecau (2005). Int. J. Eng. Sci., 43, 781--789]. The corrected solutions are shown to agree identically with numerical ones generated by a finite-difference scheme, while the original ones of Fetecau & Fetecau do not. A list of other recent papers in the literature that commit the error corrected in this Comment is compiled. Finally, a summary of related erroneous papers in this journal is presented as an Appendix.
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@article{arxiv.1111.4464,
title = {Comments on: "Starting solutions for some unsteady unidirectional flows of a second grade fluid," [Int. J. Eng. Sci. 43 (2005) 781]},
author = {Ivan C. Christov and P. M. Jordan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4464},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures (4 images), elsarticle class; accepted for publication in International Journal of Engineering Science