Comment on "On a class of exact solutions of the equations of motion of a second grade fluid" by C. Fetecau and J. Zierep (Acta Mech. 150, 135-138, 2001)

Ivan C. Christov, C. I. Christov

In a 2001 article, Fetecau and Zierep [1] considered Stokes' first problem for a second grade (SG) fluid, unaware that it had already been solved (correctly) by Puri [2] in 1984. T…