Steady convective Coutte flow for quadratic heating of the lower boundary fluid layer

This paper presents an exact solution to the Oberbeck – Boussinesq system which describes the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in a plane channel heated by a linear point source. The exact solutions obtained generalize the isothermal Couette flow and the convective motions of Birikh – Ostroumov. A characteristic feature of the proposed class of exact solutions is that they integrate the horizontal gradient of the hydrodynamic fields. An analysis of the solutions obtained is presented and thus a criterion is obtained which explains the existence of countercurrents moving in a nonisothermal viscous incompressible fluid.