Linear and weakly nonlinear magnetoconvection in a porous medium with a thermal nonequilibrium model (Q680220)

The authors examine temperature-induced convection in an incompressible viscous electroconducting fluid that is placed in a slab of Brinkman porous medium. The fluid is supposed to be under action of gravity force and of a magnetic field that is collinear to the force. Thermal conductivities of the fluid and of the porous medium are different, so to study the convection one must use a local thermal nonequilibrium model. It is obtained that the system behaviour is governed by many nondimensional parameters such as the Rayleigh number, the Chandrasekhar number, the Prandtl number, the Darcy number, and so on. In the fluid, either stationary convection or oscillatory convection may take place. To study these processes, linear and simple nonlinear types of analysis are applied. To provide the last one, the problem is reduced to the study of a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. This equation has some special features: attractor of zero-measure in phase space and existence of a certain symmetry. In some limiting cases, the solution obtained by the authors tends to earlier known results; that proves the correctness of the provided calculations. The influence of nondimensional parameters on the convection process is studied in detail. In particular, the dependence of critical Rayleigh numbers and of ``preferable'' convection type choice (stationary vs. oscillatory) on these parameters is examined.