Gian C. Rana, Poonam K. Gautam, Hemlata Saxena (DOI: 10.24874/jsscm.2019.13.02.03)

 

Abstract

 

The onset of thermal instability in a dielectric rotating nanofluid layer saturating a porous medium with vertical AC electric field is investigated by employing Darcy model for porous medium. The rheology of the nanofluid is described by Walters’ (model B’) for calculating the shear stresses from the velocity gradients. The employed model incorporates the combined effects of movement of the molecules of the fluid striking the nanoparticles, thermophoresis and electrophoresis due to the embedded particles. The boundaries are considered to be stress free. It is assumed that nanoparticle flux is zero on the boundaries. The eigen-value problem is solved analytically using the first approximation of Galerkin method. The Darcy Rayleigh number for onset of non-oscillatory (stationary) modes is obtained. The effects of the modified Taylor number, the AC electric Rayleigh number, the Lewis number, the modified diffusivity ratio, nanoparticles Rayleigh number and medium porosity have been discussed. The kinematic viscoelasticity accounting for rheology of the nanofluid has no effect on the stationary convection for Walters’ (model B’) nanofluids and behaves like an ordinary Newtonian nanofluid. Oscillatory convection has been ruled out under the considered boundary conditions.

 

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