Stability analysis of thermohaline convection in ferromagnetic fluid in densely packed porous medium with Soret effect

Abstract

The study of ferrothermohaline convection, double diffusive convection with Soret and Dufour effects have drawn the attention of researchers for the past four decades due to their remarkable applications. The Soret-driven ferrothermoconvective instability in a porous medium heated from below and salted from above has been analyzed using Darcy model for various values of parameters. A small thermal perturbation is applied to the basic state and linear stability analysis is used for which normal mode technique is applied. It is found that the presence of porous medium favours the onset of convection. The present work has been carried out both for oscillatory as well as stationary modes with graphical representation.

Citation

Sekar, R., Murugan, D. and Raju, K. (2013), "Stability analysis of thermohaline convection in ferromagnetic fluid in densely packed porous medium with Soret effect", World Journal of Engineering, Vol. 10 No. 5, pp. 439-448. https://doi.org/10.1260/1708-5284.10.5.439