Original Article Multi-component convection-diffusion in a porous medium |
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Authors: | John Tracey |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QW, Scotland, U.K., GB |
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Abstract: | The stability of a triply diffusive fluid-saturated porous layer is investigated. A linear stability analysis similar to that
of Pearlstein et al 1] is presented. This allows us to make a thorough investigation of the topology of the neutral curves.
For some values of the thermal and solute diffusivities we obtain highly unusual neutral curves, in particular a heart-shaped,
disconnected oscillatory curve. The effect of this is that three critical Rayleigh numbers are required to fully specify the
linear stability criteria, a novel result in porous convection. The influence of nonlinear terms is likely to have important
consequences for the experimental realisation of the linear results and so we investigate the nonlinear stability of the problem
by making use of the energy method. This provides an unconditional nonlinear stability boundary and enables us to identify
possible regions of subcritical instability.
Received: April 4, 1996 |
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