Stability analysis of soret effect on thermohaline convection in dusty ferrofluid saturating a Darcy porous medium

  • Authors

    • R. Sekar
    • K. Raju
    2015-02-17
    https://doi.org/10.14419/gjma.v3i1.3086
  • Darcy Model, Ferromagnetic Fluid, Linear Stability Analysis, Soret Parameter, Thermohaline Convection.

  • Abstract

    The Soret–driven ferro thermoconvective instability of multi–component fluid in a porous medium heated from below and salted from above in the presence of dust particles subjected to a transverse uniform magnetic field has been analyzed using Darcy model for various values of permeability of the porous medium. The salinity effect has been contained in magnetization and density of the ferrofluid. A small thermal perturbation imparted on the basic state and a linear stability analysis is used for this model for which normal mode technique is applied. An exact solution is obtained for the case of two free boundaries and both stationary and oscillatory instabilities have been investigated. It is found that the system destabilizes only through stationary mode. The non-buoyancy magnetization parameter, the dust particle parameter and the permeability of the porous medium are found to destabilize the system. The results are depicted graphically.

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    Sekar, R., & Raju, K. (2015). Stability analysis of soret effect on thermohaline convection in dusty ferrofluid saturating a Darcy porous medium. Global Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 3(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.14419/gjma.v3i1.3086