Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Termofluidos, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 México, DF, Mexico
Abstract
The onset of thermal convection of a Boussinesq fluid located in an unbounded layer heated from below and subject simultaneously to rotation and magnetic field, whose vectors act in different directions, is presented. To the knowledge of the authors, the convective thermal instability analysis for this complex problem has not been previously reported. In this paper, we use the Tau Chebyshev spectral method to calculate the value of the critical parameters (wave number and Rayleigh number at the onset of convection) as a function of (i) different kinds of boundaries, (ii) angle between the three vectors, and (iii) different values of the Taylor numberT(rate of rotation) and magnetic parameterQ(strength of the magnetic force). For the classical problems previously reported in the literature, we compare our calculations with Chandrasekhar’s variational method results and show that the present method is applicable.
Subject
General Engineering,General Mathematics
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