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Nonlinear convection of binary liquids in a porous medium
Y Rameshwar1, V Anuradha2, G Srinivas1
1Department of Mathematics, University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500007, India.
Abstract:
Thermal convection of binary mixtures in a porous medium is studied with stress-free boundary conditions. The linear stability analysis is studied by using the normal mode method. The effects of the material parameters have been studied at the onset of convection. Using a multiple scale analysis near the onset of the stationary convection, a cubic-quintic amplitude equation is derived. The influence of the Lewis number and the separation ratio on the supercritical-subcritical transition is discussed. Stationary front solutions and localized states are analyzed at the Maxwell point. Near the threshold of the oscillatory convection, a set of two coupled complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau type amplitude equations is derived, and implicit analytical expressions for the coefficients are given.
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