NUMERICAL EXAMINATION OF THE THERMAL INSTABILITY IN AN ANISOTROPIC POROUS MEDIUM LAYER SUBJECTED TO ROTATION AND VARIABLE GRAVITY FIELD

Author(s):  
Dhananjay Yadav
2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beer S. Bhadauria ◽  
Atul K. Srivastava ◽  
Nirmal C. Sacheti ◽  
Pallath Chandran

The present paper deals with a thermal instability problem in a viscoelastic fluid saturating an anisotropic porous medium under gravity modulation. To find the gravity modulation effect, the gravity field is considered in two parts: a constant part and an externally imposed time-dependent periodic part. The time-dependent part of the gravity field, which can be realized by shaking the fluid, has been represented by a sinusoidal function. Using Hill’s equation and the Floquet theory, the convective threshold has been obtained. It is found that gravity modulation can significantly affect the stability limits of the system. Further, we find that there is a competition between the synchronous and subharmonic modes of convection at the onset of instability. Effects of various parameters on the onset of instability have also been discussed.


Author(s):  
Sudhir Kumar Pundir ◽  
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Pulkit Kumar Nadian ◽  
Rimple Pundir ◽  
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https://jusst.org/thermal-instability-of-a-couple-stress-ferromagnetic-fluid-in-the-presence-of-variable-gravity-field-and-horizontal-magnetic-field-with-hall-currents-saturating-in-a-porous-medium/


2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Chand ◽  
G.C. Rana ◽  
S. Kumar

Abstract In this paper, we study the effects of variable gravity on thermal instability in a horizontal layer of a nanofluid in an anisotropic porous medium. Darcy model been used for the porous medium. Also, it incorporates the effect of Brownian motion along with thermophoresis. The normal mode technique is used to find the confinement between two free boundaries. The expression of the Rayleigh number has been derived, and the effects of variable gravity and anisotropic parameters on the Rayleigh number have been presented graphically


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