Affiliations: Department of Mathematics, Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Attock, Pakistan | Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan | Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Note: [] Corresponding author: Saima Noreen, Department of Mathematics, Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Attock 43600, Pakistan. Tel.: +92 51 90642172, Fax: +92 51 2601171. E-mail: laurel_lichen@yahoo.com
Abstract: Analysis has been made for the curvature effects on the MHD peristaltic flow of an incompressible Carreau fluid in a channel. The flow problem is first reduced in the wave frame of reference and then solved after employing the long wavelength and low Reynolds number approximations. Expressions of stream function, pressure gradient, magnetic force function, induced magnetic field and current density are derived and then examined for various parameters of interest.
Keywords: Curved channel, induced magnetic field, Peristaltic flow
