On Superposed Couple-stress Fluids in Porous Medium in Hydromagnetics The Use of Quantum-Chemical Semiempirical Methods to Calculate the Lattice Energies of Organic Molecular Crystals. Part II: The Lattice Energies of - and -Oxalic Acid (COOH)2

Abstract

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of two supersposed couple-stress fluids of uniform densities in a porous medium in the presence of a uniform horizontal magnetic field is studied. For mathematical simplicity, the stability analysis is carried out for two highly viscous fluids of equal kinematic viscosity and equal couple-stress kinematic viscosity. A potentially stable configuration remains stable under certain conditions, and a potentially unstable configuration is stable under certain conditions. The magnetic field stabilizes a certain wave-number range k>k*, which is unstable in the absence of the magnetic field.