Transport in Porous Media, Vol.98, No.3, 683-697, 2013
Cross Diffusion Convection in a Newtonian Fluid-Saturated Rotating Porous Medium
Effect of rotation on linear and nonlinear instability of cross-diffusive convection in an anisotropic porous medium saturated with Newtonian fluid has been investigated. Normal mode technique has been used for linear stability analysis, however nonlinear analysis is done using spectral method, involving only two terms. The Darcy model with Coriolis terms, has been employed in the momentum equation. Nonlinear analysis is used to find the thermal and concentration Nusselt numbers. The effects of various parameters, including Soret and Dufour parameters, on stationary and oscillatory convection, have been obtained, and shown graphically.
Keywords:Rayleigh number;Porous medium;Cross diffusion;Soret parameter;Dufour parameter;Heat-mass transfer