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Buoyancy instabilities in a liquid layer subjected to an oblique temperature gradient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2022

Ramkarn Patne Open the ORCID record for Ramkarn Patne [Opens in a new window]  and
Alexander Oron Open the ORCID record for Alexander Oron [Opens in a new window]
Ramkarn Patne*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004, India Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy, Telangana 502285, India
Alexander Oron
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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†Email address for correspondence: ramkarn@che.iith.ac.in
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Abstract

We investigate the temporal and spatio-temporal buoyancy instabilities in a horizontal liquid layer supported by a poorly conducting substrate and subjected to an oblique temperature gradient (OTG) with horizontal and vertical components, denoted as HTG and VTG, respectively. General linear stability analysis (GLSA) reveals a strong stabilizing effect of the HTG on the instabilities introduced by the VTG for Prandtl numbers $Pr>1$ via inducing an extra vertical temperature gradient opposing the VTG through energy convection. For $Pr<1$, a new mode of instability arises as a result of a velocity jump in the liquid layer caused by cellular circulation. A long-wave weakly nonlinear evolution equation governing the spatio-temporal dynamics of the temperature perturbations is derived. Spatio-temporal stability analysis reveals the existence of a convectively unstable long-wave regime due to the HTG. Weakly nonlinear stability analysis reveals the supercritical type of bifurcation changing from pitchfork in the presence of a pure VTG to Hopf in the presence of the OTG. Numerical investigation of the spatio-temporal dynamics of the temperature disturbances in the layer in the weakly nonlinear regime reveals the emergence of travelling wave regimes propagating against the direction of the HTG and whose phase speed depends on $Pr$. In the case of a small but non-zero Biot number, the wavelength of these travelling waves is larger than that of the fastest-growing mode obtained from GLSA.

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Convection: Buoyancy-driven instability Flow Control: Instability control Instability: Absolute/convective instability
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 937 , 25 April 2022 , A11
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