Effect of magnetic field dependent viscosity on Soret-driven ferrothermohaline convection saturating an anisotropic porous medium of sparse particle suspension

Abstract

Thermoconvective instability with Soret effect in multi-component fluids has wide range of applications in heat and mass transfer. This work deals with the theoretical investigation of the effect of magnetic field dependent (MFD) viscosity on Soret-driven ferrothermohaline convection heated and salted from below in an anisotropic porous medium subjected to a transverse uniform magnetic field. The resulting eigen value problem is solved using Brinkman model. An exact solution is obtained for the case of two free boundaries and the stationary and oscillatory instabilities are investigated by using linear stability analysis and normal mode technique for the vertical of anisotropic porous medium. The analysis has been made for different parameters like porosity, anisotropy, ratio of heat transport to mass transport, buoyancy magnetization, non-buoyancy magnetization, Soret parameter and Salinity Rayleigh number. The effect of MFD viscosity is assumed to be isotropy. It is found that the presence of MFD viscosity has a stabilizing effect, whereas magnetization has a destabilizing effect.

Citation

Sekar, R. and Raju, K. (2014), "Effect of magnetic field dependent viscosity on Soret-driven ferrothermohaline convection saturating an anisotropic porous medium of sparse particle suspension", World Journal of Engineering, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 213-228. https://doi.org/10.1260/1708-5284.11.3.213