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Thermal Instability of Compressible Micropolar Fluid in the Presence of Suspended Particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2012

N. Rani  and
S. K. Tomar
N. Rani
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, MCM DAV College, Chandigarh 160036, India
S. K. Tomar*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
*
*Corresponding author (sktomar66@gmail.com)
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Abstract

A problem of thermal instability of a compressible micropolar fluid layer heated from below in the presence of suspended particles has been investigated. Dispersion relation is derived and Rayleigh number curve is then plotted against the wavenumber at different values of compressibility parameter for a model example. Compressibility is found to be responsible to destabilize the system in the presence and absence of suspended particles for both stationary and over stationary convection.

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ConvectionMicropolarCompressibilitySuspended particlesRayleigh number

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Journal of Mechanics , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 239 - 246
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Copyright © The Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, R.O.C. 2012

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