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Effect of Soret and Temperature Dependent Viscosity on Thermohaline Convection in a Ferrofluid Saturating a Porous Medium
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Department of Mathematics Pondicherry Engineering College Puducherry – 605 014, INDIA
 
 
Online publication date: 2014-08-30
 
 
Publication date: 2014-05-01
 
 
International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2014;19(2):321-336
 
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Soret driven ferrothermoconvective instability in multi-component fluids has a wide range of applications in heat and mass transfer. This paper deals with the theoretical investigation of the effect of temperature dependent viscosity on a Soret driven ferrothermohaline convection heated from below and salted from above subjected to a transverse uniform magnetic field in the presence of a porous medium. The Brinkman model is used in the study. It is found that the stationary mode of instability is preferred. For a horizontal fluid layer contained between two free boundaries an exact solution is examined using the normal mode technique for a linear stability analysis. The effect of salinity has been included in magnetization and density of the fluid. The critical thermal magnetic Rayleigh number for the onset of instability is obtained numerically for sufficiently large values of the buoyancy magnetization parameter M1 using the method of numerical Galerkin technique. It is found that magnetization and permeability of the porous medium destabilize the system. The effect of temperature dependent viscosity stabilizes the system on the onset of convection.
 
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