¹Department of Mechanical Engineerin, K.L.University Vaddaeswaram India

²Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nova College of Engineering and Technology,Ibrahimpatnam India

The effect of various flow entities which influence the flow rate when the bounding surface is subjected to sinusoidal disturbances has been studied in detail in this paper. It is notice that, for a constant time as the angle of inclination of fluid bed is increased, the flow rate decreases. Also, as the pore size of the fluid bed is increased, the flow rate decreases. Further, it is noticed that, the frequency of excitation of the fluid bed is found to have a profound effect on the flow rate. As the frequency of excitation is increased, the flow rate decreases. This is due to the fact that the fluid particles are trapped inside the pores of the fluid bed. It is further noticed that, over a period of time, initially the flow rate increases and thereafter it decreases and finally seems to converge.