| Abstract: | The linear stability of convection in a system consisting of a vertical layer of fluid and an adjacent layer of porous medium saturated with that fluid is investigated. The fluid and the porous medium are bounded by isothermal surfaces heated to different temperatures.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 3–9, September–October, 1990.The author wishes to thank G. Z. Gershuni for supervising the work and D. V. Lyubimov for useful discussions. |
