Upper and lower estimates of multicomponent convection instability threshold via auxiliary Bénard problems

DOI10.4171/RLM/760MaRDI QIDQ2360047zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Rionero

Publication date 23 June 2017

Published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/rlm/760

zbMATH Keywords

Bénard auxiliary systemsconvectionglobal stabilityinstability thresholdmulti-component mixturesupper and lower estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

Review text

Summary: The onset of convection in a \(m\)-component Navier-Stokes fluid mixture, filling a horizontal layer \(L\) heated from below and salted partly from above and partly from below, \(\forall m\in\mathbb{N}\), is investigated. The difficulties of handling this nonlinear problem, grow drastically with \(m\) and only under special circumstances the instability threshold can be given in algebraic simple closed form. Then the problem of finding, in simple algebraic closed forms, suitable lower and upper estimates of the instability threshold arises. In the present paper, for any type of boundary (rigid-rigid, one rigid-one free, free-free), it is shown that: 1) a linearization principle in the energy norm holds; 2) upper and lower estimates of the instability threshold can be obtained via auxiliary classical Bénard problems. The estimates obtained appear to be of interest not only for theoreticians but also for experimentalists investigating natural phenomena and/or industrial processes related to the onset of convection.

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