Unsteady Couette flow of a micropolar fluid with slip

The unsteady Couette flow of an isothermal incompressible micropolar fluid between two infinite parallel plates is investigated. The motion of the fluid is produced by a time-dependent impulsive motion of the lower plate while the upper plate is set at rest. A linear slip, of Basset type, boundary condition on both plates is used. Two particular cases are discussed; in the first case we have assumed that the plate moves with constant speed and in the second case we have supposed that the plate oscillates tangentially. The solution of the problem is obtained in the Laplace transform domain. The inversion of the Laplace transform is carried out numerically using a numerical method based on Fourier series expansion. Numerical results are represented graphically for the velocity, microrotation, and volume flux for various values of the time, slip and micropolar parameters.