Arya Bhatta Journal of Mathematics and Informatics
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 2

Thermal instability in anisotropic porous medium layer saturated by a nano-fluid: Brinkman model

  • Author:
  • Ruchi Goel1,, Sudhir Kumar Yadav2,, Naresh Kumar Dua3,
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 391 to 400

1Department of Mathematics, D.N.(P.G.) College, Meerut, India

2Department of Applied Sciences, Accurate Institute of Management & Technology, Gr. Noida, India

3Department of Mathematics, P.D.M. College of Engineering, Bahadurgarh, (Haryana), India

* dr.ruchigoel@gmail.com

**sudhir_yadav_4u@yahoo.co.in

*** ndua_10@yahoo.com

Online published on 5 December, 2015.

Abstract

In this paper, the onset of convection in horizontal layer of porous medium saturated by a nanofluid has been studied analytically incorporating the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. Here the study is extended to the Brinkman model by introducing an additional parameter Darcy number.

Keywords

Nanoparticles, Nanofluid, Anisotropic Porous medium and Darcy number, Developmental indicators, Composite index, Potential targets, Model districts