Linear and weakly nonlinear triple diffusive convection in a couple stress fluid layer

Author(s):  
I.S. Shivakumara ◽  
S.B. Naveen Kumar
2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Naveen Kumar ◽  
I. S. Shivakumara ◽  
B. M. Shankar

Abstract In this paper, the effect of Coriolis force is explored on convective instability of a doubly diffusive incompressible couple stress fluid layer with gravity acting downward. A linear stability analysis is used to obtain the conditions for the onset of stationary and oscillatory convection in the closed form. Being a multiparameter instability problem, results for some isolated cases have been presented to illustrate interesting corners of parameter space. It is found that the neutral curve for oscillatory onset forms a closed-loop which is separate from the neutral curve for stationary onset indicating the requirement of three critical thermal Rayleigh numbers to specify the linear instability criteria instead of the usual single value. Besides, the simultaneous presence of rotation and the addition of heavy solute to the bottom of the layer exhibit an intriguing possibility of destabilizing the system under certain conditions, in contrast to their stabilizing effect when they are present in isolation. The implication of couple stresses on each of the aforementioned anomalies is clearly brought out. The spatial wavelength of convective cells at the onset is also discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 2050110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Zeeshan ◽  
Zeeshan Ali ◽  
Mohammad Rahimi Gorji ◽  
Farooq Hussain ◽  
S. Nadeem

In this paper, two-dimensional non-Newtonian couple stress fluid flow over the upper horizontal surface of a paraboloid (uhsp) (shaped like a submarine or any aerodynamical automobile) is investigated. At the freestream, a stretching of the fluid layer is assumed along with catalytic surface reaction which tends to induce the flow in the fluid-saturated domain. The problem is modeled by engaging laws of conservation for mass, momentum, heat and concentration. Velocity components are converted to stream functions and similarity transformations to reduce the dependent and independent variables in the partial differential equation describing the flow. Stream functions ideally satisfy continuity equation and transformation to reduce the PDEs to the system of coupled nonlinear ODEs. The numerical solution of these equations is obtained using the shooting-RKF method. The graphical results show that both the lateral and horizontal velocities decrease by increasing the couple stress material parameter and cause the temperature to rise. The thermal boundary layer decreases subject to the thickness parameter and has appositive effects on concentration boundary layer. Finally, numerical results have also been tabulated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Shalu Choudhary ◽  

Abstract We show that the global non-linear stability threshold for convection in a double-diffusive couple-stress fluid saturating a porous medium is exactly the same as the linear instability boundary. The optimal result is important because it shows that linearized instability theory has captured completely the physics of the onset of convection. It is also found that couple-stress fluid saturating a porous medium is thermally more stable than the ordinary viscous fluid, and the effects of couple-stress parameter (F ) , solute gradient ( S f ) and Brinkman number ( D a ) on the onset of convection is also analyzed.


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