Effects of Porosity and Mixed Convection on MHD Two Phase Fluid Flow in an Inclined Channel

The present study deals with the flow and heat transfer analysis of two immiscible fluids in an inclined channel embedded in a porous medium. The channel is divided in two phases such that a third grade fluid occupies the phase I and a viscous fluid occupies the phase II. Both viscous and third grade fluids are electrically conducting. A constant magnetic field is imposed perpendicular to the channel walls. The mathematical model is developed by using Darcy's and modified Darcy's laws for viscous and third grade fluids respectively. The transformed ordinary differential equations are solved numerically using a shooting method. The obtained results are presented graphically and influence of emerging parameters is discussed in detail

Soret effects on the onset of convection in rotating porous layers via the "auxiliary system method"

The onset of convection in a ternary horizontal porous fluid layer, heated from below and salted from above and below, in the presence of Soret thermo-diffusive effects (in the Darcy-Boussinesq scheme) is investigated. Via a new approach ("auxiliary system method"), it is shown that do not exist subcritical instabilities and that the global nonlinear stability is guaranteed by the linear stability. The Soret stabilizing-destabilizing effects, via algebraic conditions in closed forms, are obtained also discovering symmetries and skew-symmetries hidden in the Darcy-Boussinesq equations