Magnetoconvection in a micropolar fluid

Title

Magnetoconvection in a micropolar fluid

Creator

Siddheshwar P.G.; Pranesh S.

Description

The problem of Rayleigh-Bard convection in an electrically conducting micropolar fluid layer permeated by a uniform, vertical magnetic field is investigated with free-free, isothermal, spin-vanishing boundaries. The influence of the various micropolar fluid parameters and magnetic field on the onset of stationary convection has been analysed. It is observed that the electrically conducting micropolar fluid layer heated from below is more stable as compared with the classical electrically conducting Newtonian fluid. The critical wave number is found to be insensitive to the changes in the micropolar fluid parameters, but sensitive to the Chandrasekhar number. 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Source

International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol-36, No. 10, pp. 1173-1181.

Date

1998-01-01

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Coverage

Siddheshwar P.G., Department of Mathematics, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560 001, India; Pranesh S., Department of Mathematics, Christ College, Bangalore 560 029, Hosur Road, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 207225; CODEN: IJESA

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7225(98)00013-5

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