scholarly journals Natural convection and the evolution of a reactive porous medium

2011 ◽  
Vol 673 ◽  
pp. 286-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
LINDSEY T. RITCHIE ◽  
DAVID PRITCHARD
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Time Scales ◽  
Saturated Porous Medium ◽  
Diffusion Mechanism ◽  
Reaction Diffusion ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Convective Circulation ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Porosity And Permeability ◽  
Rayleigh Numbers

We describe a mathematical model of buoyancy-driven flow and solute transport in a saturated porous medium, the porosity and permeability of which evolve through precipitation and dissolution as a mineral is lost or gained from the pore fluid. Imposing a vertically varying equilibrium solubility creates a density gradient which can drive convective circulation. We characterise the onset of convection using linear stability analysis, and explore the further development of the coupled reaction–convection system numerically. At low Rayleigh numbers, the effect of the reaction–permeability feedback is shown to be destabilising through a novel reaction–diffusion mechanism; at higher Rayleigh numbers, the precipitation and dissolution have a stabilising effect. Over longer time scales, reaction–permeability feedback triggers secondary instabilities in quasi-steady convective circulation, leading to rapid reversals in the direction of circulation. Over very long time scales, characteristic patterns of porosity emerge, including horizontal layering as well as the development of vertical chimneys of enhanced porosity. We discuss the implications of these findings for more comprehensive models of reactive convection in porous media.

scholarly journals Thermosolutal convection in an evolving soluble porous medium

2017 ◽  
Vol 832 ◽  
pp. 666-696
Author(s):  
Lindsey T. Corson ◽  
David Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Concentration Gradient ◽  
Diffusion Mechanism ◽  
Reaction Diffusion ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Thermosolutal Convection ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Weakly Nonlinear ◽  
Saturated Porous Layer ◽  
Porosity And Permeability

We describe a mathematical model of double-diffusive (thermosolutal) convection in a saturated porous layer, when the solubility of the solute depends on the temperature, and the porosity and permeability of the porous medium evolve through dissolution and precipitation. We present the results of linear and weakly nonlinear stability analyses and explore the longer-term development of the system numerically. When the solutal concentration gradient is destabilising, the dynamics are somewhat similar to those previously found for single-species convection (Ritchie & Pritchard, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 673, 2011, pp. 286–317), including the occurrence of subcritical instabilities driven by a reaction–diffusion mechanism. However, when the solutal concentration gradient is stabilising and the thermal gradient is destabilising, novel dynamics emerge. These include a vertical segregation of circulation cells and porosity perturbations near the onset of convection, and over longer time scales the formation of a low-permeability region in the middle of the layer, pierced by occasional high-permeability channels. Under these conditions, convection may die away to nearly zero for extended periods before resuming vigorously in localised regions at later times.

Thermal Convective Instabilities in a Porous Medium

1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kaviany
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Temperature Distribution ◽  
Rayleigh Number ◽  
Saturated Porous Medium ◽  
Critical Rayleigh Number ◽  
Linear Stability Theory ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Nonlinear Temperature

The onset of convection due to a nonlinear and time-dependent temperature stratification in a saturated porous medium with upper and lower free surfaces is considered. The initial parabolic temperature distribution is due to uniform internal heating. The medium is then cooled by decreasing the upper surface temperature linearly with time. Linear stability theory is applied to the more formally developed governing equations. In order to obtain an asymptotic solution for transient problems involving very long time scales, the critical Rayleigh number for steady-state, nonlinear temperature distribution is also obtained. The effects of porosity, permeability, and Prandtl number on the time of the onset of convection are examined. The steady-state results show that the critical Rayleigh number depends only on the ratio of porosity to permeability and when this ratio exceeds a value of one thousand, the critical Rayleigh number is directly proportional to this ratio.

scholarly journals Stability Analysis and Internal Heating Effect on Oscillatory Convection in a Viscoelastic Fluid Saturated Porous Medium Under Gravity Modulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.S. Bhadauria ◽  
M.K. Singh ◽  
A. Singh ◽  
B.K. Singh ◽  
P. Kiran
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Viscoelastic Fluid ◽  
Saturated Porous Medium ◽  
Landau Equation ◽  
Power Series Expansion ◽  
Gravity Modulation ◽  
Internal Heating ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Fluid Saturated Porous Medium

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the combined effect of internal heating and time periodic gravity modulation in a viscoelastic fluid saturated porous medium by reducing the problem into a complex non-autonomous Ginzgburg-Landau equation. Weak nonlinear stability analysis has been performed by using power series expansion in terms of the amplitude of gravity modulation, which is assumed to be small. The Nusselt number is obtained in terms of the amplitude for oscillatory mode of convection. The influence of viscoelastic parameters on heat transfer has been discussed. Gravity modulation is found to have a destabilizing effect at low frequencies and a stabilizing effect at high frequencies. Finally, it is found that overstability advances the onset of convection, more with internal heating. The conditions for which the complex Ginzgburg-Landau equation undergoes Hopf bifurcation and the amplitude equation undergoes supercritical pitchfork bifurcation are studied.

Combined Effect of Temperature Modulation and Magnetic Field on the Onset of Convection in an Electrically Conducting-Fluid-Saturated Porous Medium

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. Bhadauria
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Saturated Porous Medium ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
Temperature Modulation ◽  
Vertical Magnetic Field ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Electrically Conducting ◽  
Electrically Conducting Fluid ◽  
Fluid Saturated Porous Medium

The effect of temperature modulation on the onset of thermal convection in an electrically conducting fluid-saturated-porous medium, heated from below, has been studied using linear stability analysis. The amplitudes of temperature modulation at the lower and upper surfaces are considered to be very small. The porous medium is confined between two horizontal walls and subjected to a vertical magnetic field; flow in porous medium is characterized by Brinkman–Darcy model. Considering only infinitesimal disturbances, and using perturbation procedure, the combined effect of temperature modulation and vertical magnetic field on thermal instability has been studied. The correction in the critical Rayleigh number is calculated as a function of frequency of modulation, Darcy number, Darcy Chandrasekhar number, magnetic Prandtl number, and the nondimensional group number χ. The influence of the magnetic field is found to be stabilizing. Furthermore, it is also found that the onset of convection can be advanced or delayed by proper tuning of the frequency of modulation. The results of the present model have been compared with that of Darcy model.

scholarly journals Bifurcations and Dynamics Emergent From Lattice and Continuum Models of Bioactive Porous Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1830037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Krause ◽  
Dmitry Beliaev ◽  
Robert A. Van Gorder ◽  
Sarah L. Waters
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Cell Density ◽  
Diffusion Mechanism ◽  
Finite Lattice ◽  
Reaction Diffusion ◽  
Steady States ◽  
Continuum Models ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Static Fluid ◽  
Nonlocal Reaction

We study the dynamics emergent from a two-dimensional reaction–diffusion process modeled via a finite lattice dynamical system, as well as an analogous PDE system, involving spatially nonlocal interactions. These models govern the evolution of cells in a bioactive porous medium, with the evolution of the local cell density depending on a coupled quasi-static fluid flow problem. We demonstrate differences emergent from the choice of a discrete lattice or a continuum for the spatial domain of such a process. We find long-time oscillations and steady states in cell density in both lattice and continuum models, but that the continuum model only exhibits solutions with vertical symmetry, independent of initial data, whereas the finite lattice admits asymmetric oscillations and steady states arising from symmetry-breaking bifurcations. We conjecture that it is the structure of the finite lattice which allows for more complicated asymmetric dynamics. Our analysis suggests that the origin of both types of oscillations is a nonlocal reaction–diffusion mechanism mediated by quasi-static fluid flow.

scholarly journals Steady Thermal Convection from a Concentrated Source in a Porous Medium

1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Hickox ◽  
H. A. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Point Source ◽  
Saturated Porous Medium ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Similarity Transformations ◽  
Infinite Region ◽  
Concentrated Source ◽  
Fluid Saturated Porous Medium ◽  
Velocity And Temperature Fields ◽  
Rayleigh Numbers

Solutions for the steady, axisymmetric velocity and temperature fields associated with a point source of thermal energy in a fluid-saturated porous medium are obtained numerically through use of similarity transformations. The two cases considered are those of a point source located on the lower, insulated boundary of a semi-infinite region and a point source embedded in an infinite region. Numerical results are presented from which complete descriptions of the velocity and temperature fields can be constructed for Rayleigh numbers of 0.1, 1.0, 10.0, and 100.0.

scholarly journals Penetrative convection due to absorption of radiation in a magnetic nanofluid saturated porous layer

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Amit Mahajan ◽  
Mahesh Kumar Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Saturated Porous Medium ◽  
Pseudospectral Method ◽  
Lewis Number ◽  
Selective Absorption ◽  
Penetrative Convection ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Magnetic Nanofluid ◽  
Chebyshev Pseudospectral Method ◽  
Diffusivity Ratio

AbstractThe present study investigates the onset of penetrative convection in- duced by selective absorption of radiation in a magnetic nanofluid saturated porous medium. The influence of Brownian motion, thermophoresis, and magnetophoresis on magnetic nanofluid treatment is taken into consideration. The Darcy’s model is selected for the porous medium. We conduct a linear stability analysis to examine the onset of instability and evaluate the results for two different configurations, namely, when the layer is heated from below and when the layer is heated from above. The numerical investigations are carried out by applying the Chebyshev pseudospectral method. The effect of the porosity parameter E, parameter Y (represents the ratio of internal heating to boundary heating), Lewis number Le, concentration Rayleigh number Rn, Langevin parameter αL, width of nanofluid layer d, diffusivity ratio η, and modified diffusivity ratio NA is examined at the onset of convection. The results indicate that the convection commences easily with an increase in the value of Y, Le, and NA but opposite in the case with a decrease in the value of E, αL, η and d for both the two configurations. The parameter Rn advances the onset of convection when the layer is heated from below, while delays the onset of convection when the layer is heated from above.

scholarly journals Hall Effect on Bénard Convection of Compressible Viscoelastic Fluid through Porous Medium

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahinder Singh ◽  
Chander Bhan Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Thermal Instability ◽  
Linear Stability Theory ◽  
Stationary Convection ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Medium Permeability ◽  
Rayleigh Numbers ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Mode Technique

An investigation made on the effect of Hall currents on thermal instability of a compressible Walter’s B′ elasticoviscous fluid through porous medium is considered. The analysis is carried out within the framework of linear stability theory and normal mode technique. For the case of stationary convection, Hall currents and compressibility have postponed the onset of convection through porous medium. Moreover, medium permeability hasten postpone the onset of convection, and magnetic field has duel character on the onset of convection. The critical Rayleigh numbers and the wave numbers of the associated disturbances for the onset of instability as stationary convection have been obtained and the behavior of various parameters on critical thermal Rayleigh numbers has been depicted graphically. The magnetic field, Hall currents found to introduce oscillatory modes, in the absence of these effects the principle of exchange of stabilities is valid.

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