A numerical technique and effect of magnetic field dependent (MFD) viscosity on thermal instability in a ferrofluid pores with Coriolis force for Darcy model

Abstract

Purpose

The effect of magnetic field dependent (MFD) viscosity on the onset of convection in a ferromagnetic fluid layer heated from below saturating rotating porous medium in the presence of vertical magnetic field is investigated theoretically by using Darcy model. The resulting eigen value problem is solved using the regular perturbation technique. Both stationary and oscillatory instabilities have been obtained. It is found that increase in MFD viscosity and increase in magnetic Rayleigh number is to delay the onset of ferroconvection, while the nonlinearity of fluid magnetization has no influence on the stability of the system.

Design/methodology/approach

The thermal perturbation method is employed for analytical solution. A theory of linear stability analysis and normal mode technique have been carried out to analyze the onset of convection for a fluid layer contained between two impermeable boundaries for which an exact solution is obtained.

Findings

The conditions for the system to stabilize both by stationary and oscillatory modes are studied. Even for the oscillatory system of particular frequency dictated by physical conditions, the critical Rayleigh numbers for oscillatory mode of the system were found to be greater than for the stationary mode. The system gets destabilized for various physical parameters only through stationary mode. Hence, the analysis is restricted to the stationary mode. To the Coriolis force, the Taylor number T_a is calculated to discuss the results. It is found that the system stabilizes through stationary mode for values of and for oscillatory instability is favored for Ta > 104. Therefore the Taylor number T_a leads to stability of the system. For larger rotation, magnetization leads to destabilization of the system. The MFD viscosity is found to stabilize the system.

Originality/value

This research paper is new and original.

Citation

Murugan, D. and Sekar, R. (2022), "A numerical technique and effect of magnetic field dependent (MFD) viscosity on thermal instability in a ferrofluid pores with Coriolis force for Darcy model", World Journal of Engineering, Vol. 19 No. 5, pp. 697-706. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJE-01-2021-0044