International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering Research
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 4

A mathematical theorem in Magnetorotatory Thermohaline convection in porous medium: Brinkman model

1Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, H. P. University, Shimla, India

2Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, H. P. University, Shimla, India

*Corresponding author e-mail: jpsmaths67@gmail.com

Online published on 11 September, 2014.

Abstract

The present paper mathematically establishes that magnetorotatory thermohaline convection of the Veronis type in porous medium cannot manifest itself as oscillatory motions of growing amplitude in an initially bottom heavy configuration if the thermohaline Rayleigh number RS, the Lewis number τ, the Prandtl number Pr, the porosity ε, satisfy the inequality () where Da the Darcy number and are E′ constants which depend upon porosity of the medium. It further establishes that this result is uniformly valid for the quite general nature of the bounding surfaces. A similar characterization theorem is also proved for magnetorotatory thermohaline convection of the Stern type.

Keywords

Thermohaline instability, Porous medium, Oscillatory motions