Improved perturbation solution for viscous flow in a dilating-contracting permeable channel with velocity slip

Recently, Mandal and Ghosh [Lie-group method solutions for a viscous flow in a dilating-squeezing permeable channel with velocity slip, Phys. Fluids 35, 047121 (2023)] constructed perturbation solutions for viscous flow in porous channels with a slip condition and moving walls restricted to slow wall dilation-contraction rates. Herein, we show that this slowness assumption may be completely removed. In doing so, we develop a more widely applicable and more accurate perturbation scheme for all dilation-contraction rates. Our strategy involves generating new and exact solutions to the linear, inviscid problem with slip condition, and then we draw on this precise form to construct more accurate perturbation expansions for solutions to the nonlinear flow model than are currently available.

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Recently, Mandal and Ghosh (Phys. Fluids 35, 047121, 2023) presented perturbation solutions for viscous flow in porous channels with a slip condition limited to slow wall dilation-contraction rates. In this study, we demonstrate that this slowness assumption can be completely eliminated. By doing so, we develop a more widely applicable and accurate perturbation scheme for all dilation-contraction rates. Our approach involves generating new exact solutions to the linear, inviscid problem with slip condition and utilizing them to construct more accurate perturbation expansions for the nonlinear flow model.