Thermogravitational Diffusion in a Porous Medium Saturated by a Binary Fluid

2015 ◽  
pp. 733-786
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Author(s):  
Faras Issiako ◽  
Christian Akowanou ◽  
Macaire Agbomahena

We analyze analytically the effects of anisotropy in permeability and that of a transverse magnetic field on thermal convection in a porous medium saturated with a binary fluid and confined in a horizontal cavity. The porous medium, of great extension, is subjected to various conditions at the thermal and solutal boundaries. The axes of the permeability tensor are oriented obliquely with respect to the gravitational field. Based on a scale analysis, the velocity, temperature, and heat and mass transfer rate fields were determined. These results were validated by the study of borderline cases which are: pure porous media and pure fluid media discussed in the literature. It emerges from this study that the anisotropy parameters influence the convective flow. The application of a transverse magnetic field significantly reduces the speed of the flow and thereby affects the temperature field and the rate of heat and mass transfer.


1991 ◽  
Vol 66 (9) ◽  
pp. 1185-1188 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Dierker ◽  
P. Wiltzius

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Paschinger ◽  
D Levesque ◽  
G Kahl ◽  
J.-J Weis

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 073601 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Lo Jacono ◽  
A. Bergeon ◽  
E. Knobloch

Author(s):  
Shilpi Agarwal ◽  
Puneet Rana

Double-diffusive convection in a horizontal rotating porous medium layer saturated by a nanofluid, for the case when the base fluid of the nanofluid is itself a binary fluid such as salty water, is studied. The model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis, while the Brinkman model is used for the porous medium. The Rayleigh numbers’ for stationary and oscillatory convection have been obtained in terms of various non-dimensional parameters. Several results are obtained as limiting cases of the present study.


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