Research Journal of Engineering and Technology

  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1

On Exchange Principle in Magnetohydrodynamic Triply Diffusive Convection with viscosity variations

1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla-171005

2Department of Physics, M.L.S.M. College, Sunder Nagar (H. P.)

Abstract

Linear stability of a triply diffusive fluid layer heated from below, which is kept under the effect of uniform vertical magnetic field, has been studied by considering variable viscosity. A sufficient condition for the occurrence of stationary convection is derived. These results are uniformly valid for quite general nature of the bounding surfaces.

Keywords

Triply diffusive convection, variable viscosity, concentration Rayleigh number, stationary convection, Chandrasekhar number