Exact analytical solution for a thermal boundary layer in a saturated porous medium

The forced convection thermal boundary layer in a porous medium as an analytically tractable special case of a mixed convection problem is considered. It is shown that some general features of the mixed convection solutions reported recently by other authors [B. Brighi, J.-D. Hoernel, On the concave and convex solutions of mixed convection boundary layer approximation in a porous medium, Appl. Math. Lett. (published online, 2005); M. Guedda, Multiple solutions of mixed convection boundary layer approximations in a porous medium, Appl. Math. Lett. (published online, 2005)] can already be recovered from this exactly solvable case.     

Double diffusive convection in porous media under the action of a magnetic field

The onset of thermal convection in an electrically conducting fluid saturating a porous medium, uniformly heated from below, salted by one chemical and embedded in an external transverse magnetic field is analyzed. The critical Rayleigh thermal numbers at which steady and Hopf convection can occur, are determined. Sufficient conditions guaranteeing the effective onset of convection via steady or oscillatory state are provided.

     

多孔介质复合方腔双扩散混合对流LBM模拟

基于CLBGK模型,通过引入浓度分布函数,利用格子Boltzmann方法对顶盖驱动的复合方腔内的双扩散混合对流现象进行了研究,复合方腔由多孔介质区域和纯流体空间组成.在Richardson(理查德森)数Ri=1.0,Lewis(路易斯)数Le=2.0,Grashof(格拉晓夫)数Gr=104和Prandtl(普朗特)数Pr=0.7时,分析了孔隙尺度下多孔介质层不同位置及浮升力比（-5.0≤N≤5.0）对复合方腔双扩散混合对流的影响.给出了浮升力比N及多孔介质层位置影响下的高温高浓度壁面上的平均Nusselt(努赛尔)数Nu_av、平均Sherwood(舍伍德)数Sh_av及当地Nusselt数Nu_local和Sherwood数Sh_local的分布规律.     

Numerical simulation of convective motion in an anisotropic porous medium and cosymmetry conservation

The onset of convection in a porous anisotropic rectangle occupied by a heat-conducting fluid heated from below is analyzed on the basis of the Darcy–Boussinesq model. It is shown that there are combinations of control parameters for which the system has a nontrivial cosymmetry and a one-parameter family of stationary convective regimes branches off from the mechanical equilibrium. For the two-dimensional convection equations in a porous medium, finite-difference approximations preserving the cosymmetry of the original system are developed. Numerical results are presented that demonstrate the formation of a family of convective regimes and its disappearance when the approximations do not inherit the cosymmetry property.     

Nonlinear stability of convection induced by inclined thermal and solutal gradients

The energy method, giving the sufficient condition for stability, is developed for the convection problem induced by inclined thermal and solutal gradients in a horizontal layer of a saturated porous medium. The boundaries are taken to be perfectly conducting and Darcy's law is employed to represent the porous medium. A nonlinear stability analysis is performed and compound matrix method is employed for numerical calculations. The optimal stability bound is computed and numerical results are compared with the linear theory for different parameter values.     

Thermal convection in a rotating porous layer

Summary It is found in this note that basic results concerning thermal convection in a rotating porous layer may be obtained from known analysis of thermal convection in an (non-rotating) anisotropic porous medium.

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Résumé On peut obtenir des résultats de base sur la convection thermique dans une couche poreuse en rotation à partir de l'analyse connue de la convection thermique dans une couche poreuse anisotrope pas en rotation.

     

On the characterization of non-oscillatory motions in ferromagnetic convection with magnetic field dependent viscosity in a rotating porous medium

In the present paper, a sufficient condition is derived for the validity of the “principle of the exchange of stabilities” in ferromagnetic convection with magnetic field dependent viscosity, for the case of free boundaries, in porous medium in the presence of a uniform vertical magnetic field and uniform rotation about the vertical axis.     

Cosymmetric families of steady states in 3D convection of incompressible fluid in a porous medium

We consider three-dimensional convection of an incompressible fluid saturated in a parallelepiped with a porous medium. A mimetic finite-difference scheme for the Darcy convection problem in the primitive variables is developed. Two problems with different boundary conditions are considered to study scenarios of instability of the state of rest. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Unsteady convective diffusion of a solute in a Hagen-Poiseuille flow through a tube with permeable wall

Influence of Interphase Mass Transfer (IMT) on the unsteady convective diffusion in a fluid flow through a tube surrounded by a porous medium is examined against the background of no IMT. The three coefficients namely exchange coefficient, convection coefficient, and dispersion coefficient are evaluated asymptotically at large-time. The exchange coefficient exists due to IMT. All-time analysis is made analytically when there is no IMT. The mean concentration distribution is measured at a point inside and outside the slug. The peak of mean concentration is higher than that of pure convection and it is further enhanced with increase of porous parameter. (© 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Effect of dust particles on a layer of micropolar ferromagnetic fluid heated from below saturating a porous medium

The problem of the effect of dust particles on the thermal convection in micropolar ferromagnetic fluid saturating a porous medium subject to a transverse uniform magnetic field has been investigated theoretically. Linear stability analysis and normal mode analysis methods are used to find an exact solution for a flat micropolar ferromagnetic fluid layer contained between two free boundaries. In case of stationary convection, the effect of various parameters like medium permeability, dust particles, non-buoyancy magnetization, coupling parameter, spin-diffusion parameter and micropolar heat conduction parameter are analyzed. For sufficiently large values of magnetic parameter M₁, the critical magnetic thermal Rayleigh number for the onset of instability is determined numerically and results are depicted graphically. It is also observed that the critical magnetic thermal Rayleigh number is reduced solely because the heat capacity of clean fluid is supplemented by that of the dust particles. The principle of exchange of stabilities is found to hold true for the micropolar ferromagnetic fluid saturating a porous medium heated from below in the absence of micropolar viscous effect, microinertia and dust particles.     

Blow-up rate for a nonlinear diffusion equation

In this work we study the blow-up rate for a nonlinear diffusion equation with an inner source and a nonlinear boundary flux, which is equivalent to a porous medium equation with convection. Depending upon the sign of a parameter included, the source can be positive or negative (absorption). By the scaling method, we obtain that the blow-up rate is independent of a negative source, while for the situation with a positive source, the blow-up rate is determined by the interaction between the inner source and the boundary flux. Comparing with the previous results for the porous medium model without convection, we observe that the gradient term included here does not affect the blow-up rates of solutions.     

Effect of chemical reaction on the dispersion of a solute in a porous medium

A mathematical model is presented in this paper which describes the dispersion of a chemically active solute in the laminar flow in a sparsely packed porous medium. The validity of time-dependent dispersion coefficient is widened by using a generalized dispersion coefficient. The effect of porous parameter and chemical reaction on the dispersion coefficient is studied. The exact solution for the mean concentration distribution of a chemically active solute is obtained as a function of downwind distance and time. Results are also obtained for pure convection.     

Influence of finite-density fluctuations on the development of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability in a porous medium

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics - We numerically simulate the Rayleigh–Taylor convection in a porous medium in the presence of initial density fluctuations at the interface between two...     

Thermohaline convection with cross-diffusion in an anisotropic porous medium

Using normal mode technique it has been shown that (i) values of the anisotropy parameter are important in deciding the mode of convection in a doubly diffusive fluid saturating a porous medium. (ii) Depending on the values of the Soret and Dufour parameters, an increase in anisotropy parameter either promotes or inhibits instability, (iii) cross-diffusion induces instability even in a potentially stable set-up and (iv) for certain values of the Dufour and Soret parameters there is a discontinuity in the critical thermal Rayleigh number, which disappears if the porous medium has horizontal isotropy.     

Perturbation analysis of radiative effect on free convection flows in porous medium in the presence of pressure work and viscous dissipation

The effect of thermal radiation with a regular three-parameter perturbation analysis has been studied for the effects in some free convection flows of Newtonian fluid-saturated porous medium. The effects of the thermal radiation, permeability of the porous medium, pressure stress work and viscous dissipation on the flows and temperature fields have been included in the analysis. Four different vertical flows have been analyzed, those adjacent to an isothermal surface, uniform heat flux surface, a plane plume and flow generated from a horizontal line energy source, and, a vertical adiabatic surface. Rosseland approximation is used to describe the radiative heat flux in the energy equation. The numerical results of the perturbation analysis for four conditions are solved numerically by the fourth-order Runge–Kutta integration scheme. Numerical values of the main physical quantities are the skin friction and a heat transfer and total heat and mass convected downstream are presented in a tabular form with the parameters characterizing the radiation, permeability of the porous medium, pressure stress work and viscous dissipation. The obtained results are compared and a representative set is displayed graphically to illustrate the influences of the radiation, permeability of the porous medium, pressure stress work and viscous dissipation on the velocity and the temperature profiles.     

Magnetohydrodynamic non-Darcy mixed convection heat transfer from a vertical heated plate embedded in a porous medium with variable porosity

A numerical model is developed to study magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) mixed convection from a heated vertical plate embedded in a Newtonian fluid saturated sparsely packed porous medium by considering the variation of permeability, porosity and thermal conductivity. The boundary layer flow in the porous medium is governed by Forchheimer–Brinkman extended Darcy model. The conservation equations that govern the problem are reduced to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations by using similarity transformations. Because of non-linearity, the governing equations are solved numerically. The effects of magnetic field on velocity and temperature distributions are studied in detail by considering uniform permeability (UP) and variable permeability (VP) of the porous medium and the results are discussed graphically. Besides, skin friction and Nusselt number are also computed for various physical parameters governing the problem under consideration. It is found that the inertial parameter has a significant influence in increasing the flow field and the rate of heat transfer for variable permeability case. The important finding of the present work is that the magnetic field has considerable effects on the boundary layer velocity and on the rate of heat transfer for variable permeability of the porous medium. Further, the results obtained under the limiting conditions were found to be in good agreement with the existing ones.     

Nonlinear rotating convection in a sparsely packed porous medium

We investigate linear and weakly nonlinear properties of rotating convection in a sparsely packed Porous medium. We obtain the values of Takens–Bogdanov bifurcation points and co-dimension two bifurcation points by plotting graphs of neutral curves corresponding to stationary and oscillatory convection for different values of physical parameters relevant to rotating convection in a sparsely packed porous medium near a supercritical pitchfork bifurcation. We derive a nonlinear two-dimensional Landau–Ginzburg equation with real coefficients by using Newell–Whitehead method [16]. We investigate the effect of parameter values on the stability mode and show the occurrence of secondary instabilities viz., Eckhaus and Zigzag Instabilities. We study Nusselt number contribution at the onset of stationary convection. We derive two nonlinear one-dimensional coupled Landau–Ginzburg type equations with complex coefficients near the onset of oscillatory convection at a supercritical Hopf bifurcation and discuss the stability regions of standing and travelling waves.     

Nonlinear Convective Stability in a Porous Medium with Temperature-Dependent Viscosity and Inertial Drag

A nonlinear stability analysis of convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium with temperature-dependent viscosity and inertia drag is presented. It is shown that the quadratic drag term is mathematically important and physically significant in ensuring conditional stability.     

Preface

This paper deals with two fundamental models for convection in a reacting porous medium with magnetic field effect. We demonstrate that the solution depends continuously on changes in the chemical reaction and the electrical conductivity coefficients.     

Structural stability for the Brinkman equations of flow in double diffusive convection

This paper continues the investigation of structural stability for the Brinkman equations modeling the double diffusive convection for flow in a porous medium. It supplements earlier results of Straughan and Hutter [B. Straughan, K. Hutter, A priori bounds and structural stability for double diffusive convection incorporating the Soret effect, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 455 (1999) 767-777].