Paper 2, Section I, C
Part IB, 2020
Incompressible fluid of constant viscosity is confined to the region between two parallel rigid plates. Consider two parallel viscous flows: flow A is driven by the motion of one plate in the -direction with the other plate at rest; flow B is driven by a constant pressure gradient in the -direction with both plates at rest. The velocity mid-way between the plates is the same for both flows.
The viscous friction in these flows is known to produce heat locally at a rate
per unit volume, where is the -component of the velocity. Determine the ratio of the total rate of heat production in flow A to that in flow B.