Many phenomena which are closer to our daily lives like atmospheric or oceanic circulations, hurricanes and tornados, bath tub vorticities, stirring tea in a cup are all examples of rotating fluids. The theory of rotating fluids has become very important because of its occurrence in many natural phenomena for its application in various technological solutions which are directly governed by the action of Coriolis forces due to earth’s rotation. Many studies have been made on the rotating fluid and several investigations have been carried out on various types of flows both non-MHD and MHD in a rotating system. Jana and Dutta [1] studied “Couette flow” in a rotating system. Vidyanidhu and Nigam [2] analyzed the “Poiseuille flow” in a rotating system. Soundalgekar and Pop [3] and Gupta [4] studied injection/suction effects for the case of rotating horizontal porous plates. Bagewadi and Siddabassapa [5] [6] , Singh, Singh and Rambabu [7] , Singh and Tripathi [8] , Singh and Singh [9] , Thakur and Manoj Kumar [10] studied rotating MHD flow and found out exact solutions. Krishan Dev Singh [11] studied unsteady MHD Poiseuille flow in a rotating system. M.A. Imran et al. [12] found out exact solutions for the MHD second grade fluid in a porous medium using integral transformation technique. A.M. Rashid [13] studied unsteady MHD flow of a rotating fluid from stretching surface in porous medium and effects of radiation and variable viscosity on it. Sayantan Sil and Manoj Kumar [14] studied rotating orthogonal plane MHD flow through porous media using complex variable technique.

The role of non-Newtonian fluids has become very important these days due to modern technological and industrial applications. Increasing emergence of non-Newtonian fluids such as molten plastic pulp, emulsions, raw materials in great varieties of industries like petroleum and chemical processes has stimulated a considerable amount of interest in the study of behaviour of such fluids in motion. Also the flow of non-Newtonian fluids has various technological applications including plastic manufacture, performance of lubricants, applications of paints, processing of food and movement of biological fluids. In the studies of non-Newtonian fluids not only the non-linearities increase considerably, in comparison to the non-linearities occurring in the inertia part of the Navier-Stokes equations, but in certain cases the order of differential equation also increase. In case of a homogenous incompressible fluid of second grade, it is found that the governing equations are, in general, of third order, as compared to the second order Navier-Stokes equations [15] [16] . For obtaining exact solutions transformation techniques involving inverse or semi-inverse methods are used for reformulation of equations in solvable form. Following Martin’s formulation [17] some researchers have used hodograph transformation [18] in order to linearise the system of governing equations and got some exact solutions. This method has been widely used and W.F. Ames [18] has given an excellent survey to this method together with applications to various other fields. Hodograph transformation method is used in various fields of research such as gas dynamics [19] [20] , linear viscous fluids [21] , non-Newtonian fluids [22] [23] and MHD Newtonian and non-Newto- nian fluid flows [15] [24] . Chandna, Barron and Smith [21] applied hodograph transformation in steady plane flow. Chandna and Garg [16] used this technique to study viscous incompressible orthogonal flow. Baron and Chandna [25] used this method to study constantly inclined incompressible plane flows. Chandna, Barron and Chew [26] used this method to study variably inclined incompressible MHD plane flow. Chandna and Nguyen [15] used this approach to study non-Newtonian MHD transverse fluid flows. Siddiqui, Kaloni and Chandna [22] used this method to study incompressible second grade fluid. Singh and Mishra [27] used this technique to study steady plane MHD flows. Thakur and Mishra [28] applied this method to rotating hydromagnetic flows. Singh and Tripathi [29] used hodograph transformation to find exact solutions for plane rotating MHD flow with orthogonal magnetic and velocity field. Siddiqui, Hayat, Siddiqui and Asghar [30] used this technique to study unsteady plane viscous flow. Mishra and Mishra [31] used hodograph transformation in unsteady MHD transverse flows. Sayantan Sil, Manoj Kumar and Thakur [32] applied hodograph transformation to MHD transverse fluid flows through porous media. Recently Manoj Kumar [33] studied non-Newtonian fluid flows through porous media applying hodograph transformation method.

Flow of fluid through porous medium is of interest to a wide range of engineers and and scientists, in addition to economists who recognise the importance of ground water flows and variety of tertiary oil recovery processes. There are numbers of practical applications of fluid flow through porous medium, including filtration flow in packed column, permeation of water or oil within matrix of porous rock etc. Many researchers have studied the flow of various fluids through porous media. Ram and Mishra [34] have studied unsteady MHD flow through a porous medium in a circular pipe under action of constant pressure gradient. Singh and Singh [8] discussed the problem of steady plane MHD flow through porous media. Thakur and Singh [35] studied steady plane variably inclined MHD flows through porous media applying magnetograph transformations. Thakur, Manoj Kumar and Mahan [36] studied steady MHD orthogonal plane fluid flows through porous media. Also Bhatt and Shirley [37] applied hodograph transformation method in plane viscous flow in porous media.

The basic equations governing the motion of homogenous, incompressible, second-grade fluid in a rotating frame through porous media are

and the constitutive equation for the Cauchy stress T,

where V = velocity field vector, p = dynamic pressure function, the constant fluid field density, angular velocity vector, r = radius vector, coefficient of dynamic viscosity, permeability of the medium and are the normal stress moduli. ?pI denotes the deterninate spherical stress, isotropic tensor, so that becomes

.

The Rivlin-Ericksen tensors A₁ and A₂ are defined as

, , (4)

where a dot over A₁ denotes the material time derivative.

If we substitute (3) in (2) and make use of (4) we get

where denotes the Laplacian , denotes the partial derivative of with respect to time,

, and, here is the reduced pressure, being the centrifugal contribution of pressure.

In the case of steady plane flow in a rotating frame through porous media when body forces are absent, (1) and (5) reduce to

Equations (6)-(8) form three partial differential equations for three unknowns u, v,.

Let us define the two-dimensional vorticity function and a generalized energy function h(x, y) as:

where and

Employing (9) and (10) in (7) and (8) we obtain the following system of equations:

The above system of four partial differential equations in four unknown functions u, v, and h as functions of (x, y) govern steady plane flows of an incompressible second-grade fluid through porous media. Once a solution of these equations are found, the pressure function is determined from the expression for given in (10).

Letting the function and to be such that, in the region of flow, the Jacobian

we may consider x and y as functions of u and v. By means of we derive the following relations:

We also obtain the relations

where is any continuously differentiable function and

Employing these transformation relations for the first order partial derivatives and the transformation equations for the functions defined by

the system of Equations (11) is replaced by the following system in the hodograph plane (u, v):

where,

System of Equations (16) to (19) is a system of four equations for the four unknown functions, , and.

The equation of continuity implies the existence of a stream-function such that

Likewise Equation (16) implies the existence of a function L(u, v) , called the Legendre transform function of the stream-function, so that

and the two functions, L(u, v) are related by

Introducing L(u, v) in the system (16)-(19), with j, w₁, w₂, given by (15), (20) respectively, it follows that (16) is identically satisfied and the system may be replaced by

where

By using the integrability condition

i.e. in the (x, y) plane, we eliminate from (24) and (25) and obtain

where j, w₁, w₂ are given in (26) and (27) . Summing up we have the following theorem:

THEOREM I: If is the Legendre transform function of a stream-function of steady, plane, incompressible, second-grade fluid flows in a rotating frame through porous media then L(u, v) must satisfy equation (28) where, , , are given by (26) and (27).

Let (29)

be the Legendre-transform function, where A, B are arbitrary non zero constants and. Using (29) in Equations (26) and (27) we obtain

Now employing (29) and (30) in Equation (27), we find that can be the Legendre transform of a stream function for a plane steady flow for a second grade fluid through porous media, provided that (for all u and v) m and n satisfy

The above Equation (31) is satisfied only for, and (29) and (30) become

Using in (22) and solving the resulting equations simultaneously we get

Using and Equation (33) in the linear momentum equations in system (11) and integrating, we obtain

. Employing and (33) in (10) and using, the pressure function is deter-

mined to be

where is an arbitrary constant. And the streamlines are given by

Figure 1 shows that the streamlines of the flow equations are concentric hyperbolas.

THEOREM II: If is the Legendre transform function of a stream function for steady,

plane, incompressible, second-grade fluid flows in a rotating frame through porous media, then the flow in the physical plane is a flow with concentric hyperbolic streamlines with flow variables given by (33) and (34).

Let (35)

be the Legendre- transform function with and

Using (35) in (26) and (27), we find that

On substituting (36) in (28), we find that can be the Legendre transform of a stream function for a plane steady flow for a second grade fluid in a rotating frame through porous media, provided that (for all u and v) m and n satisfy

The above equation (37) is satisfied if, and (35) and (36) reduce to

On proceeding as in Application I, we get

and

where is an arbitrary constant. And the streamlines are given by

Figure 2 shows that the streamlines of the flow equations are rectangular hyperbolae.

THEOREM III: If be the Legendre transform function of a stream function for steady, plane, incompressible, second-grade fluid flows in a rotating frame through porous media, then the flow in the physical plane is a flow with rectangular hyperbolae streamlines with flow variables given by (39) and (40).

In the absence of rotating reference frame i.e. we recover the results of Manoj Kumar [33] . Also

when porous media is absent i.e. the term our result will tally with A.M. Siddiqui, P.N. Kaloni and

O.P Chandna [22] .

In this paper, the analytical solution of nonlinear equations governing the flow of second grade fluid in a rotating frame through porous media is obtained using transformation technique. Illustrations have been made taking different forms of Legendre transform function. The expressions for velocity profile, streamline and pressure distribution are constructed in each case. Streamline patterns are also plotted. Our results indicate that pressures are dependent upon material parameters α₁ and α₂ of the second grade fluid. Also, the present analysis is more general and several results of various authors (as already mentioned in the text) can be recovered in the limiting cases.

SayantanSil,ManojKumar, (2015) Exact Solution of Second Grade Fluid in a Rotating Frame through Porous Media Using Hodograph Transformation Method. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,03,1443-1453. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2015.311172