On Triply Diffusive Convection Analogous to Stern type with Variable Viscosity Prakash Jyoti P1, Kuma Rajeev1,*, Chopra Prakash2 1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India 2J.N. Government Engineering College, Sunder Nagar, (H.P.), India *Corresponding Author E-mail: rajeevkumar2012math@gmail.com
Mathematical Subject Classification Number: 76E06, 76E20 Online published on 12 January, 2017. Abstract The paper mathematically establishes that triply diffusive convection (analogous to Stern type), with variable viscosity and with one of the components as heat, cannot manifest itself as oscillatory motions of growing amplitude in an initially bottom heavy configuration if the thermal Rayleigh number |R|, the Lewis number τ2 for the second concentration component, μmin (the minimum value of viscosity μ in the closed interval [0, 1]) and the Prandtl number σ satisfy the inequality |R| ≤  + provided D2μ is positive everywhere. It is further proved that this result is uniformly valid for the quite general nature of the bounding surfaces. Top Keywords Triply diffusive convection, variable viscosity, concentration Rayleigh number, oscillatory motion, initially bottom heavy configuration. Top |