STABILITY OF FREE-CONVECTION IN A NARROW POROUS LAYER SUBJECT TO ROTATION

Authors
VADASZ P
Citation
P. Vadasz, STABILITY OF FREE-CONVECTION IN A NARROW POROUS LAYER SUBJECT TO ROTATION, International communications in heat and mass transfer, 21(6), 1994, pp. 881-890
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Mechanics,Thermodynamics
Journal title
International communications in heat and mass transfer → ACNP
ISSN journal
07351933
Volume
21
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
881 - 890
Database
ISI
SICI code
0735-1933(1994)21:6<881:SOFIAN>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The stability and onset of convection in a narrow, fluid saturated por ous layer subject to a centrifugal body force due to rotation is inves tigated analytically. The marginal stability criterion is established in terms of a critical centrifugal Rayleigh number and a critical wave number. As a result, the corresponding eigenfunctions are evaluated a t the convection threshold.