Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of a Partially Ionized Plasma in a Porous Medium in Presence of a Variable Magnetic Field

1992 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1227-1231
Author(s):  
R. C. Sharma ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Variable Magnetic Field ◽  
Taylor Instability ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Medium Permeability ◽  
Wave Numbers ◽  
Rayleigh Taylor Instability ◽  
Partially Ionized ◽  
The Magnetic Field

Abstract The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a partially ionized plasma in a porous medium is considered in the presence of a variable magnetic field perpendicular to gravity. The cases of two uniform partially ionized plasmas separated by a horizontal boundary and exponentially varying density, viscosity, magnetic field and neutral particle number density are considered. In each case, the magnetic field succeeds in stabilizing waves in a certain wave-number range which were unstable in the absence of the magnetic field, whereas the system is found to be stable for potentially stable configuration/stable stratifications. The growth rates both increase (for certain wave numbers) and decrease (for different wave numbers) with the increase in kinematic viscosity, medium permeability and collisional frequency. The medium permeability and collisions do not have any qualitative effect on the nature of stability or instability.

Effects of Finite Larmor Radius and Hall Currents on Thermosolutal Instability of a Partially Ionized Plasma in Porous Medium

1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirti Prakash ◽  
Seema Manchanda
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Larmor Radius ◽  
Stationary Convection ◽  
Number Range ◽  
Finite Larmor Radius ◽  
Medium Permeability ◽  
Stabilizing Effect ◽  
Partially Ionized

Abstract The effects of finite ion Larmor radius (FLR), collisions and Hall currents on thermosolutal instability of a partially ionized plasma in porous medium in the presence of uniform vertical magnetic field are investigated. It is found that the presence of each magnetic field, FLR, Hall currents and collisions, introduces oscillatory modes which were, otherwise, non-existent. In the case of stationary convection, finite Larmor radius, Hall currents, medium permeability and magnetic field may have stabilizing or destabilizing effects, but for a certain wave number range, FLR, magnetic field and Hall currents have a complete stabilizing effect. The stable solute gradient always has stabilizing effect on the system whereas the collisional effects disappear for the case of stationary convection.

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of Viscous-Viscoelastic Fluids in Presence of Suspended Particles Through Porous Medium

1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pardeep Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Suspended Particles ◽  
Taylor Instability ◽  
Viscous Fluids ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Uniform Rotation ◽  
Stable Case ◽  
Unstable Case ◽  
Rayleigh Taylor Instability

Abstract The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a Newtonian viscous fluid overlying an Oldroydian viscoelastic fluid containing suspended particles in a porous medium is considered. As in both Newtonian viscous-viscous fluids the system is stable in the potentially stable case and unstable in the potentially unstable case, this holds for the present problem also. The effects of a variable horizontal magnetic field and a uniform rotation are also considered. The presence of magnetic field stabilizes a certain wave-number band, whereas the system is unstable for all wave-numbers in the absence of the magnetic field for the potentially unstable configuration. However, the system is stable in the potentially stable case and unstable in the potentially unstable case for highly viscous fluids in the presence of a uniform rotation.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Magnetic Field on the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Couple-Stress Fluid

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-622
Author(s):  
K.B. Chavaraddi ◽  
V.B. Awati ◽  
M.M. Nandeppanavar ◽  
P.M. Gouder
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Dispersion Relation ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Couple Stress ◽  
Taylor Instability ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Rayleigh Taylor Instability ◽  
The Magnetic Field

Abstract In this study we examine the effect of the magnetic field parameter on the growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in a couple stress fluids. A simple theory based on fully developed flow approximations is used to derive the dispersion relation for the growth rate of the RTI. The general dispersion relation obtained using perturbation equations with appropriate boundary conditions will be reduced for the special cases of propagation and the condition of instability and stability will be obtained. In solving the problem of the R-T instability the appropriate boundary conditions will be applied. The couple-stress parameter is found to be stabilizing and the influence of the various parameters involved in the problem on the interface stability is thoroughly analyzed. The new results will be obtained by plotting the curves between the dimensionless growth rate and the dimensionless wave number for various physical parameters involved in the problem (viz. the magnetic field, couple-stress, porosity, etc.) in the problem. It is found that the magnetic field and couple-stress have a stabilization effect whereas the buoyancy force (surface tension) has a destabilization effect on the RT instability in the presence of porous media.

scholarly journals Instability through porous medium of two viscous superposed conducting fluids

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Sharma ◽  
K. P. Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Horizontal Magnetic Field ◽  
Number Range ◽  
Wave Number Range ◽  
Medium Permeability ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Conducting Fluids

The stability of the plane interface separating two viscous superposed conducting fluids through porous medium is studied when the whole system is immersed in a uniform horizontal magnetic field. The stability analysis is carried out for two highly viscous fluids of equal kinematic viscosities, for mathematical simplicity. It is found that the stability criterion is independent of the effects of viscosity and porosity of the medium and is dependent on the orientation and magnitude of the magnetic field. The magnetic field is found to stabilize a certain wave number range of the unstable configuration. The behaviour of growth rates with respect to viscosity, porosity and medium permeability are examined analytically.

scholarly journals Magneto-rotatory compressible couple-stress fluid heated from below in porous medium

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Chander Bhan Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Couple Stress ◽  
Normal Modes ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Couple Stress Fluid ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Medium Permeability ◽  
Effects Of Rotation ◽  
The Magnetic Field

Abstract The study is aimed at analysing thermal convection in a compressible couple stress fluid in a porous medium in the presence of rotation and magnetic field. After linearizing the relevant equations, the perturbation equations are analysed in terms of normal modes. A dispersion relation governing the effects of rotation, magnetic field, couple stress parameter and medium permeability have been examined. For a stationary convection, the rotation postpones the onset of convection in a couple stress fluid heated from below in a porous medium in the presence of a magnetic field. Whereas, the magnetic field and couple stress postpones and hastens the onset of convection in the presence of rotation and the medium permeability hastens and postpones the onset of convection with conditions on Taylor number. Further the oscillatory modes are introduced due to the presence of rotation and the magnetic field which were non-existent in their absence, and hence the principle of exchange stands valid. The sufficient conditions for nonexistence of over stability are also obtained.

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