Influence of Prandtl number on mixed convective flow in a vertical pipe filled with porous medium: A linear stability analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 054112
Author(s):  
Km. Renu ◽  
Ashok Kumar ◽  
Abhishek K. Sharma
Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 342
Author(s):  
Maksims Zigunovs ◽  
Andrei Kolyshkin ◽  
Ilmars Iltins

Linear stability analysis of a steady convective flow in a tall vertical annulus caused by nonlinear heat sources is conducted in the paper. Heat sources are generated as a result of a chemical reaction. The effect of radial cross-flow through permeable porous walls of the annulus is analyzed. The problem is relevant to biomass thermal conversion. The base flow solution is obtained by solving nonlinear boundary value problem. Linear stability analysis is performed, using collocation method. The calculations show that radial inward or outward flow has a stabilizing effect on the flow, while the increase in the Frank–Kamenetskii parameter (proportional to the intensity of the chemical reaction) destabilizes the flow. The increase in the Reynolds number based on the radial velocity leads to the appearance of the second minimum on the marginal stability curves. The rate of increase in the critical Grashof number with respect to the Reynolds number is different for inward and outward radial flows.


1980 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Mckibbin ◽  
M. J. O'Sullivan

The formalism required to determine the criterion for the onset of convection in a multi-layered porous medium heated from below is developed using a straightforward linear stability analysis. Detailed results for two- and three-layer configurations are presented. These results show that large permeability differences between the layers are required to force the system into an onset mode different from a homogeneous system.


Author(s):  
K.B. Tsiberkin

The stability of incompressible fluid plane-parallel flow over a layer of a saturated porous medium is studied. The results of a linear stability analysis are described at different porosity values. The considered system is bounded by solid wall from the porous layer bottom. Top fluid surface is free and rigid. A linear stability analysis of plane-parallel stationary flow is presented. It is realized for parameter area where the neutral stability curves are bimodal. The porosity variation effect on flow stability is considered. It is shown that there is a transition between two main instability modes: long-wave and short-wave. The long-wave instability mechanism is determined by inflection points within the velocity profile. The short-wave instability is due to the large transverse gradient of flow velocity near the interface between liquid and porous medium. Porosity decrease stabilizes the long wave perturbations without significant shift of the critical wavenumber. Simultaneously, the short-wave perturbations destabilize, and their critical wavenumber changes in wide range. When the porosity is less than 0.7, the inertial terms in filtration equation and magnitude of the viscous stress near the interface increase to such an extent that the Kelvin-Helmholtz analogue of instability becomes the dominant mechanism for instability development. The stability band realizes in narrow porosity area. It separates the two branches of the neutral curve.


Author(s):  
Peter Vadasz

The dynamics of weak turbulence in small Prandtl number convection in porous media is substantially distinct than the corresponding dynamics for moderate and large Prandtl numbers. Linear stability analysis is performed and its results compared with numerical computations to reveal the underlying phenomena.


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