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A Characterization of Onset of Instability in Couple-Stress Fluid in the Presence of Magnetic Field


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1 Department of Mathematics, Singhania University, Pacheri-Bari, Jhunjnu, Rajasthan, India
2 Department of Mathematics, Govt. College, Nadaun, Dist. Hamirpur, (HP) 177033, India
     

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The thermal instability of a couple-stress fluid acted upon by uniform vertical magnetic field and heated from below is investigated. Following the linearized stability theory and normal mode analysis, the paper mathematically established the condition for characterizing the oscillatory motions which may be neutral or unstable for free and perfectly conducting boundaries at the top and bottom of the fluid. It is established that all nondecaying slow motions starting from rest, in a couple-stress fluid of infinite horizontal extension and finite vertical depth, which is acted upon by uniform vertical magnetic field opposite to gravity and a constant vertical adverse temperature gradient, are necessarily nonoscillatory, in the regime

R ≤ π2(3π4F+1/P2)

 

where R is the thermal Rayleigh number, F is the couple-stress parameter and P2 is the magnetic Prandtl number. The result is important since the exact solutions of the problem investigated in closed form, are not obtainable.

Keywords

Thermal Convection, Couple-Stress Fluid, PES, Magnetic Field, Chandrasekhar Number.
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Authors

Kamal Singh
Department of Mathematics, Singhania University, Pacheri-Bari, Jhunjnu, Rajasthan, India
Ajaib S. Banyal
Department of Mathematics, Govt. College, Nadaun, Dist. Hamirpur, (HP) 177033, India

Abstract


The thermal instability of a couple-stress fluid acted upon by uniform vertical magnetic field and heated from below is investigated. Following the linearized stability theory and normal mode analysis, the paper mathematically established the condition for characterizing the oscillatory motions which may be neutral or unstable for free and perfectly conducting boundaries at the top and bottom of the fluid. It is established that all nondecaying slow motions starting from rest, in a couple-stress fluid of infinite horizontal extension and finite vertical depth, which is acted upon by uniform vertical magnetic field opposite to gravity and a constant vertical adverse temperature gradient, are necessarily nonoscillatory, in the regime

R ≤ π2(3π4F+1/P2)

 

where R is the thermal Rayleigh number, F is the couple-stress parameter and P2 is the magnetic Prandtl number. The result is important since the exact solutions of the problem investigated in closed form, are not obtainable.

Keywords


Thermal Convection, Couple-Stress Fluid, PES, Magnetic Field, Chandrasekhar Number.