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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chand, Ramesh
• Rana, G. C.

Titel

Oscillating Convection of Nanofluid in Porous Medium

Ist Teil von

• Transport in porous media, 2012-11, Vol.95 (2), p.269-284

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper, oscillatory convection in a horizontal layer of nanofluid in porous medium is studied. For porous medium, Darcy model is applied. A linear stability theory and normal mode analysis method is used to find the solution confined between two free boundaries. The onset criterion for oscillatory convection is derived analytically and graphically. Regimes of oscillatory and non-oscillatory convection for various parameters are derived. The effects of Lewis number, concentration Rayleigh number, Prandtl–Darcy number (Vadasz Number) and modified diffusivity ratio on the oscillatory convection are investigated graphically. We examine the validity of ‘PES’ and concluded that ‘PES’ is not valid for the problem.