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Zbl 1227.76059
Malashetty, M.S.; Shivakumara, I.S.; Kulkarni, Sridhar
The onset of convection in a couple stress fluid saturated porous layer using a thermal non-equilibrium model.
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[J] Phys. Lett., A 373, No. 7, 781-790 (2009). ISSN 0375-9601

Summary: The stability of a couple stress fluid saturated horizontal porous layer heated from below and cooled from above when the fluid and solid phases are not in local thermal equilibrium is investigated. The Darcy model is used for the momentum equation and a two-field model is used for energy equation each representing the solid and fluid phases separately. The linear stability theory is employed to obtain the condition for the onset of convection. The effect of thermal non-equilibrium on the onset of convection is discussed. It is shown that the results of the thermal non-equilibrium Darcy model for the Newtonian fluid case can be recovered in the limit as couple stress parameter $C\to 0$. We also present asymptotic analysis for both small and large values of the inter phase heat transfer coefficient $H$. We found an excellent agreement between the exact solutions and asymptotic solutions when $H$ is very small.
MSC 2000:
*76R10 Free convection
76S05 Flows in porous media
76A05 Non-Newtonian fluids

Keywords: convection; thermal non-equilibrium; couple stress fluid; porous media

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