GLOBAL STABILITY FOR THERMAL CONVECTION IN A COUPLE-STRESS FLUID WITH TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY
By: Sunil, Shalu Choudhary and P. K. Bharti
Open Access
|Feb 2014Abstract
We show that the global nonlinear stability threshold for convection in a couple-stress fluid with temperature and pressure dependent viscosity is exactly the same as the linear instability boundary. This optimal result is important because it shows that linearized instability theory has captured completely the physics of the onset of convection. It has also been found that the couplestress fluid is more stable than the ordinary viscous fluid and then the effect of couple-stress parameter (F) and variable dependent viscosity (Γ) on the onset of convection is also analyzed.
Language: English
Page range: 85 - 102
Published on: Feb 14, 2014
Published by: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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