Anisotropic thermoconvective effects on the onset of double diffusive convection in a porous medium (Q1261667)

The linear stability of the thermodiffusive equilibrium of a binary mixture of two miscible fluids in a horizontal plane porous layer is investigated. The linear theory is based on the normal mode analysis under the small amplitude assumption. The effects of Prandtl number, ratio of diffusivities and separation parameter are presented graphically. It is found that the thermo-convective currents have a stabilizing effect as well as a destabilizing effect with respect to the case in which these currents are absent. We also find that either a stationary instability or oscillatory instability can occur as the first bifurcation.