On the Convection in a Porous Medium with Inclined Temperature Gradient and Vertical Throughflow. Part I. Normal Modes

2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid Brevdo ◽  
Michael S. Ruderman
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Normal Modes ◽  
Vertical Throughflow ◽  
Inclined Temperature Gradient

Three-dimensional absolute and convective instabilities at the onset of convection in a porous medium with inclined temperature gradient and vertical throughflow

2009 ◽  
Vol 641 ◽  
pp. 475-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEONID BREVDO
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Rayleigh Number ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Convective Instabilities ◽  
Homogeneous Porous Medium ◽  
Vertical Throughflow ◽  
Speed Of Propagation ◽  
Inclined Temperature Gradient

By using the mathematical formalism of absolute and convective instabilities, we study in this work the nature of unstable three-dimensional localized disturbances at the onset of convection in a flow in a saturated homogeneous porous medium with inclined temperature gradient and vertical throughflow. It is shown that for marginally supercritical values of the vertical Rayleigh numberRvthe destabilization has the character of absolute instability in all the cases in which the horizontal Rayleigh numberRhis zero or the Péclet numberQvis zero. In all the cases in whichRhandQvare both different from zero, at the onset of convection the instability is convective. In the latter cases, the growing emerging disturbance has locally the structure of a non-oscillatory longitudinal roll, and its group velocity points in the direction opposite the direction of the applied horizontal temperature gradient, i.e. parallel to the axis of the roll. The speed of propagation of the unstable wavepacket increases withQvand generally increases withRh.

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