G. C. Rana1, R. C. Thakur2
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.3, pp. 251-265, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.251
Abstract In this paper, the effect of suspended particles on thermal convection in a compressible viscoelastic fluid hosted in a porous medium is considered. For the porous medium, the Brinkman model is employed with the Rivlin-Ericksen approach used in parallel to describe the rheological behaviour of the viscoelastic fluid. By applying a normal mode analysis method, a dispersion relation is derived and solved analytically. It is observed that the medium permeability, suspended particles, gravity field and viscoelasticity introduce oscillatory modes. For stationary convection, it is found that the Darcy-Brinkman number has a stabilizing effect whereas the More >
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