On dynamics of double‐diffusive magneto‐convection in a non‐Newtonian fluid layer

Abstract

This article concerns the dynamic transitions of a non‐Newtonian horizontal fluid layer with thermal and solute diffusion and in the presence of vertical magnetic field. First, a linear stability analysis is performed by deriving the principle of exchange of stability condition, which shows the system loses stability when the thermal Rayleigh number exceeds a threshold. Second, we consider the transition induced by real eigenvalues and complex eigenvalues, respectively, and two nonlinear transition theorems along with several transition numbers determining the transition types are obtained via the method of center manifold reduction. Finally, rigorous numerical computations are performed to offer examples of possible transition types. Our results show that both continuous and jump transitions can occur for certain parameters when the diffusivities from big to small are thermal, solute concentration and magnetic diffusion, but only continuous transition induced by real eigenvalues is observed when the diffusivities from big to small is the opposite of the previous case.