Abstract
The stability of convection in a two-layer system in which a layer of fluid with a temperature-dependent viscosity overlies and saturates a highly porous material is studied. Owing to the difficulties associated with incorporating the nonlinear advection term in the Navier-Stokes equations into a stability analysis, previous literature on fluid/porous thermal convection has modelled the fluid using the linear Stokes equations. This paper derives global stability for the full nonlinear system, by utilizing a model proposed by Ladyzhenskaya. The nonlinear stability boundaries are shown to be sharp when compared with the linear instability thresholds.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 127-140 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society A - Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences |
| Volume | 466 |
| Issue number | 2113 |
| Early online date | 30 Sept 2009 |
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| Publication status | Published - 8 Jan 2010 |
Keywords
- Superposed porous-fluid convection
- Temperature-dependent viscosity
- Energy method
- Heat-transfer
- Convection
- Layer
- Flow
- Interface
- Liquid