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In this paper the unsteady Couette flow of a generalized Maxwell fluid with fractional derivative (GMF) is studied. The exact solution is obtained with the help of integral transforms (Laplace transform and Weber transform) and generalized Mittag-Leffler function. It was shown that the distribution and establishment of the velocity is governed by two non-dimensional parameters η, b and fractional derivative α of the model. The result of classical (Newtonian fluid and standard Maxwell fluid) Couette flow can be obtained as a special case of the result given by this paper, and the decaying of the unsteady part of GMF displays power law behavior, which has scale invariance.
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Shaowei, W., Mingyu, X. Exact solution on unsteady Couette flow of generalized Maxwell fluid with fractional derivative. Acta Mechanica 187, 103–112 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-006-0332-9
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