Numerical Solutions for Unsteady Flows of a Magnetohydrodynamic Jeffrey Fluid Between Parallel Plates Through a Porous Medium

In the present article, the numerical solutions for three fundamental unsteady flows (namely Couette, Poiseuille, and generalized Couette flows) of an incompressible magnetohydrodynamic Jeffrey fluid between two parallel plates through a porous medium are presented using differential quadrature method. The equations governing the flow of Jeffrey fluid are modeled in Cartesian coordinate system. The resulting non-dimensional differential equations are approximated by using a new scheme that is trigonometric B-spline differential quadrature method. The scheme is based on the differential quadrature method in which the weighting coefficients are obtained by using trigonometric B-splines as a set of basis functions. This scheme reduces the equation into the system of first-order ordinary differential equation which is solved by adopting strong stability-preserving time-stepping Runge–Kutta scheme. The effects of the sundry parameters of interest on the velocity profiles are studied and the results are presented through graphs. It is observed that, the velocity increases from the horizontal channel to vertical channel. The velocity is a decreasing function of magnetic parameter. With an increase in time, the velocity increases.