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Ajaib S. Banyal, Daleep K. Sharma / International Journal of Engineering Research and
                       Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com
                        Vol. 2, Issue 5, September- October 2012, pp.1265-1271
       On The Region For Linear Growth Rate Of Perturbation In
       Magneto-Thermal Convection In A Couple-Stress Fluid In A
                           Porous Medium

                         Ajaib S. Banyal1* and Daleep K. Sharma2
               1*
                Department of Mathematics, Govt. College Nadaun, Dist. Hamirpur, (HP) INDIA
                2
                Department of Mathematics, Rajiv Gandhi G. C. Kotshera, Shimla (HP), INDIA



ABSTRACT
         A layer of couple-stress fluid heated          thermal instability (Bénard Convection) in
from below in a porous medium is considered in          Newtonian fluids, under varying assumptions of
the presence of uniform vertical magnetic field.        hydrodynamics and hydromagnetics, has been given
Following the linearized stability theory and           by Chandrasekhar 1        and the Boussinesq
normal mode analysis, the paper through                 approximation has been used throughout, which
mathematical analysis of the governing equations        states that the density changes are disregarded in all
of couple-stress fluid convection with a uniform        other terms in the equation of motion, except in the
vertical magnetic field in porous medium, for any       external force term. The formation and derivation of
combination of perfectly conducting free and            the basic equations of a layer of fluid heated from
rigid boundaries of infinite horizontal extension       below in a porous medium, using the Boussinesq
at the top and bottom of the fluid, established         approximation, has been given in a treatise by
that the complex growth rate  of oscillatory
perturbations, neutral or unstable, must lie
                                                               
                                                        Joseph 2 . When a fluid permeates through an
inside a semi-circle                                    isotropic and homogeneous porous medium, the
                                                        gross effect is represented by Darcy’s law. The
                                       2                study of layer of fluid heated from below in porous
         R             Pl p 2                      media is motivated both theoretically and by its
  
   2
                                       ,
        
         Ep1 p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl 
                            2      2
                                        
                                                        practical applications in engineering. Among the
                                                        applications in engineering disciplines one can name
in the right half of a complex  -plane, Where R
                                                        the food processing industry, the chemical
is the thermal Rayleigh number, F is the couple-        processing industry, solidification, and the
stress parameter of the fluid, Pl is the medium         centrifugal casting of metals. The development of
permeability,  is the porosity of the porous           geothermal power resources has increased general
                                                        interest in the properties of convection in a porous
medium, p1 is the thermal Prantl number and p 2
is the magnetic Prandtl number, which                                                    
                                                        medium. Stommel and Fedorov 3 and Linden 4        
prescribes the upper limits to the complex              have remarked that the length scales characteristic
growth rate of arbitrary oscillatory motions of         of double-diffusive convecting layers in the ocean
growing amplitude in the couple-stress fluid            may be sufficiently large so that the Earth’s rotation
heated from below in the presence of uniform            might be important in their formation. Moreover, the
vertical magnetic field in a porous medium. The         rotation of the Earth distorts the boundaries of a
result is important since the exact solutions of the    hexagonal convection cell in a fluid through porous
problem investigated in closed form, are not            medium, and this distortion plays an important role
obtainable for any arbitrary combinations of            in the extraction of energy in geothermal regions.
perfectly conducting dynamically free and rigid         The forced convection in a fluid saturated porous
boundaries.                                                                                              
                                                        medium channel has been studied by Nield et al 5 .
                                                        An extensive and updated account of convection in
Key Words: Thermal convection; Couple-Stress            porous media has been given by Nield and
Fluid; Magnetic field; PES; Chandrasekhar number.
MSC 2000 No.: 76A05, 76E06, 76E15; 76E07.
                                                              
                                                        Bejan 6 .
                                                                  The effect of a magnetic field on the
1. INTRODUCTION                                         stability of such a flow is of interest in geophysics,
         Right from the conceptualizations of           particularly in the study of the earth’s core, where
                                                        the earth’s mantle, which consist of conducting
turbulence, instability of fluid flows is being
                                                        fluid, behaves like a porous medium that can
regarded at its root. A detailed account of the
theoretical and experimental study of the onset of      become conductively unstable as result of
                                                        differential diffusion. Another application of the


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results of flow through a porous medium in the            diseases of joints are caused by or connected with a
presence of magnetic field is in the study of the         malfunction of the lubrication. The external
stability of convective geothermal flow. A good           efficiency of the physiological joint lubrication is
account of the effect of rotation and magnetic field      caused by more mechanisms. The synovial fluid is
on the layer of fluid heated from below has been          caused by the content of the hyaluronic acid, a fluid
                                      
given in a treatise by Chandrasekhar 1 .                  of high viscosity, near to a gel. A layer of such fluid
                                                          heated from below in a porous medium under the
          MHD finds vital applications in MHD
                                                          action of magnetic field and rotation may find
generators, MHD flow-meters and pumps for
                                                          applications in physiological processes. MHD finds
pumping liquid metals in metallurgy, geophysics,
                                                          applications in physiological processes such as
MHD couplers and bearings, and physiological
                                                          magnetic therapy; rotation and heating may find
processes such magnetic therapy. With the growing
                                                          applications in physiotherapy. The use of magnetic
importance of non-Newtonian fluids in modern
                                                          field is being made for the clinical purposes in
technology and industries, investigations of such
                                                          detection and cure of certain diseases with the help
fluids are desirable. The presence of small amounts
                                                          of magnetic field devices.
                                                                                          
of additives in a lubricant can improve bearing
performance by increasing the lubricant viscosity                   Sharma and Thakur 15 have studied the
and thus producing an increase in the load capacity.      thermal convection in couple-stress fluid in porous
These additives in a lubricant also reduce the            medium in hydromagnetics. Sharma and
coefficient of friction and increase the temperature               
                                                          Sharma 16 have studied the couple-stress fluid
range in which the bearing can operate.
                                                          heated from below in porous medium. Kumar and
          Darcy’s law governs the flow of a
Newtonian fluid through an isotropic and                          
                                                          Kumar 17 have studied the combined effect of
homogeneous porous medium. However, to be                 dust particles, magnetic field and rotation on couple-
mathematically       compatible    and     physically     stress fluid heated from below and for the case of
consistent with the Navier-Stokes equations,              stationary convection, found that dust particles have
Brinkman 7        heuristically   proposed      the     destabilizing effect on the system, where as the
                                                          rotation is found to have stabilizing effect on the
                            2
introduction of the term      q,     (now known as       system, however couple-stress and magnetic field
                                                         are found to have both stabilizing and destabilizing
Brinkman term) in addition to the Darcian term            effects under certain conditions. Sunil et al. 18  
                                                      have studied the global stability for thermal
   q . But the main effect is through the
  k                                                     convection in a couple-stress fluid heated from
   1                                                    below and found couple-stress fluids are thermally
Darcian term; Brinkman term contributes very little       more stable than the ordinary viscous fluids.
effect for flow through a porous medium. Therefore,                                           
                                                                    Pellow and Southwell 19 proved the
Darcy’s law is proposed heuristically to govern the       validity of PES for the classical Rayleigh-Bénard
flow of this non-Newtonian couple-stress fluid
through porous medium. A number of theories of                                                  
                                                          convection problem. Banerjee et al 20 gave a new
the micro continuum have been postulated and              scheme for combining the governing equations of
                               
applied (Stokes 8 ; Lai et al 9 ; Walicka 10 ).         thermohaline convection, which is shown to lead to

                           
                                                          the bounds for the complex growth rate of the
The theory due to Stokes 8 allows for polar effects       arbitrary oscillatory perturbations, neutral or
such as the presence of couple stresses and body          unstable for all combinations of dynamically rigid or
                  
couples. Stokes’s 8 theory has been applied to the        free boundaries and, Banerjee and Banerjee 21     
study of some simple lubrication problems (see e.g.       established a criterion on characterization of non-
                
Sinha et al 11 ; Bujurke and Jayaraman 12 ;             oscillatory motions in hydrodynamics which was

    
Lin 13 ). According to the theory of       Stokes 8 ,
                                                                                              
                                                          further extended by Gupta et al. 22 . However no
                                                          such result existed for non-Newtonian fluid
couple-stresses are found to appear in noticeable
                                                          configurations, in general and for couple-stress fluid
                                                                                                      
magnitudes in fluids with very large molecules.
Since the long chain hyaluronic acid molecules are        configurations, in particular. Banyal 23 have
found as additives in synovial fluid, Walicki and         characterized the non-oscillatory motions in couple-
          
Walicka 14 modeled synovial fluid as couple               stress fluid.
                                                                    Keeping in mind the importance of couple-
stress fluid in human joints. The study is motivated
                                                          stress fluids and magnetic field in porous media, as
by a model of synovial fluid. The synovial fluid is
                                                          stated above,, the present paper is an attempt to
natural lubricant of joints of the vertebrates. The
                                                          prescribe the upper limits to the complex growth
detailed description of the joints lubrication has very
                                                          rate of arbitrary oscillatory motions of growing
important practical implications; practically all
                                                          amplitude, in a layer of incompressible couple-stress


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          fluid in a porous medium heated from below, in the                     
          presence of uniform vertical magnetic field,                       . H  0 ,                      (4)
          opposite to force field of gravity, when the bounding                    
          surfaces are of infinite horizontal extension, at the
                                                                              dH                     
          top and bottom of the fluid and are perfectly                             ( H .) q   H ,
                                                                                                     2
                                                                                                                                         (5)
          conducting with any combination of dynamically                        dt
          free and rigid boundaries.
                                                                                   d            
                    The result is important since the exact
                                                                            Where       1 q . , stands                              for the
          solutions of the problem investigated in closed form,
          are not obtainable, for any arbitrary combination of
                                                                                   dt t
          perfectly conducting dynamically free and rigid                   convective derivatives. Here
          boundaries.                                                                             c 
                                                                             E    (1   ) s s  , is a constant,
                                                                                                  c 
          2. FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM                                                           0 v
          AND PERTURBATION EQUATIONS
                   Here we consider an infinite, horizontal,                while  s , c s and  0 , c v , stands for the density
          incompressible electrically conducting couple-stress              and heat capacity of the solid (porous matrix)
          fluid layer, of thickness d, heated from below so                 material and the fluid, respectively,  is the
          that, the temperature and density at the bottom
                                                                                                        
          surface z = 0 are T 0 and  0 , at the upper surface z
                                                                            medium porosity and r ( x,            y, z ) .
          = d are T d and      d respectively, and that a uniform            The equation of state is
                                                            dT                     0 1   T  T0  ,       (6)
          adverse        temperature       gradient   
                                                                  
                                                                      is   Where the suffix zero refer to the values at the
                                                            dz                                                             
          maintained. The fluid is acted upon by a uniform                  reference level z = 0. Here g 0,0, g  is
                                       
                                                                            acceleration due to gravity and  is the coefficient
          vertical magnetic field H 0,0, H  . This fluid layer
                                                                            of thermal expansion. In writing the equation (1),
          is flowing through an isotropic and homogeneous                   we made use of the Boussinesq approximation,
          porous medium of porosity  and of medium                         which states that the density variations are ignored
          permeability k 1 .                                                in all terms in the equation of motion except the
                                                                           external force term. The kinematic viscosity ,
                    Let  , p, T,  ,  e and q u , v, w denote
          respectively the          fluid density, pressure,
                                                                            couple-stress viscosity          ' , magnetic permeability
          temperature, resistivity, magnetic permeability and                e , thermal diffusivity  , and electrical resistivity
          filter velocity of the fluid, respectively Then the                , and the coefficient of thermal expansion  are
          momentum balance, mass balance, and energy
          balance equation of couple-stress fluid and                       all assumed to be constants.
          Maxwell’s equations through porous medium,                               The    basic     motionless                   solution        is
                                                                            
          governing the flow of couple-stress fluid in the
                                                                            q  0,0,0 ,    0 (1   z ) ,                          p=p(z),
          presence of uniform vertical           magnetic field
          (Stokes               
                   8 ; Joseph 2 ; Chandrasekhar 1 ) are                   T   z  T0 ,                    (7)
          given by                                                               Here we use the linearized stability theory and
                       p     1 
                                                                            the normal mode analysis method. Assume small
1   q 1                               '                           perturbations around the basic solution, and let  ,
         q .  q     g 1       2  q
                              k 
  t                o       0  1  0  
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                             
                                                                          p ,  , q u, v, w        and h  hx , h y , hz             denote
                               
                                                                            respectively the perturbations in density  , pressure
                e (  H )  H , (1)
                   4 o                                                                                                 

                                                                           p,   temperature       T,       velocity q (0,0,0) and              the
           . q  0 ,                                                                          
                                                                            magnetic field H  0,0, H  . The change in
                                                       (2)

                                                                           density  , caused mainly by the perturbation                      in
            dT
          E     ( q .)T   2T ,                          (3)
                                                                            temperature, is given by
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                      0 1   T    T0      0 , i.e.                             Where we have introduced new coordinates

                          0 .                       (8)
                                                                                        x' , y' , z ' = (x/d, y/d, z/d) in new units of length d
                                                                                        and D  d / dz' . For convenience, the dashes are
                             Then the linearized perturbation equations
                                                                                        dropped hereafter. Also we have substituted
                    of the couple-sress fluid reduces to
                                                                                                         nd 2            
                                                                                       a  kd,               , p1        ,   is     the   thermal
1 q    1           1   '                                                                                     
       p  g      2  q  e    h   H                                                               
 t    0           k1   0  4 0 
                                                                                     Prandtl number; p 2         ,   is the magnetic Prandtl
,                                                                            (9)
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                     k1
                                                                                        number; Pl 
                          . q  0 ,                                   (10)                           d2
                                                                                                         is the dimensionless medium

                                                                                                           ' /(  0 d 2 )
                          E     w   2                    ,        (11)
                                                                                        permeability,   F
                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                             , is the
                            t                                                          dimensionless couple-stress viscosity parameter;
                                   
                          . h  0 ,                                                           g d 4
                                                                       (12)             R               , is the thermal Rayleigh number and
                                                                                            
                                   h                 
                                                                                           e H 2 d 2
                                      H .  q   2 h .                  (13)     Q                 , is the Chandrasekhar number.
                                  t                                                     4 0
                                                                                        Also     we       have      Substituted           W  W ,
                    3. NORMAL MODE ANALYSIS
                             Analyzing the disturbances into two-                             d 2                         Hd 
                    dimensional waves, and considering disturbances
                                                                                                ,            K      K  ,
                                                                                                                                  
                    characterized by a particular wave number, we                                                              
                    assume that the Perturbation quantities are of the                  and D  dD , and dropped   for convenience.
                    form                                                                    Now consider the case for any combination of

                    w, , h   W z , z , K ( z ) exp
                                                                                        the horizontal boundaries as, rigid-rigid or rigid-free
                                   z,                                                   or free-rigid or free-free at z=0 and z=1, as the case
                    ik x  ik y  nt  ,
                          x             y                  (14)
                                                                                        may be, and are perfectly conducting. The
                                                                                        boundaries are maintained at constant temperature,
                                    Where k x , k y are the wave numbers along          thus the perturbations in the temperature are zero at
                                                                                        the boundaries. The appropriate boundary
                    the            x-       and       y-directions,   respectively,     conditions with respect to which equations (15)-
                                             , is the resultant wave number, n
                                              1
                                                                                        (17), must possess a solution are
                     k  kx  k y
                                   2        2 2
                                                                                         W = 0=  , on both the horizontal boundaries, (18)
                    is the growth rate which is, in general, a complex                     DW=0, on a rigid boundary,                 (19)
                    constant and, W ( z ), ( z ) and K (z ) are the                       D 2W  0 ,on a dynamically free boundary, 20)
                    functions of z only.                                                  K = 0,on both the boundaries as the regions
                    Using (14), equations (9)-(13), Within the                          outside the fluid are perfectly conducting, (21)
                    framework of Boussinesq approximations, in the
                    non-dimensional form transform to                                           Equations (15)-(17) and appropriately
                                                                                        adequate boundary conditions from (18)-(21), pose
                1                                                                    an eigenvalue problem for  and we wish to
D   2
             
         a 2  
               
                               F 2
                                D  a2
                               P                W  Ra   QDD
                                                   
                                                               2         2
                                                                              a2 K    Characterize  i , when  r  0 .
                Pl
                              l                 
                                                  
,                                                                            (15)
                       D      2        2
                                                  
                                    a  p 2 K   DW ,                     (16)
                                                                                        4. MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
                                                                                        We prove the following theorems:
                    and                                                                 Theorem 1: If R  0 , F  0, Q 0,              r  0
                      D                          
                                                                                                                                                 and
                              2
                                    a 2  Ep1   W ,                     (17)        i  0 then the necessary condition for the
                                                                                        existence of non-trivial solution W , , K  of
                                                                                        equations (15) - (17) and the boundary conditions
                                                                                        (18), (21) and any combination of (19) and (20) is
                                                                                                that


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                                                                                                                            And equating the real and imaginary parts
                                      R              Pl p 2                                                   on both sides of equation (28), and cancelling
                                                                  .                                           i ( 0) throughout from imaginary part, we get
                                      Ep1
                                           p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl 
                                                          2      2
                                                                      
                                                                                                                     r 1 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                            1                                   1
                                                                                                                      DW  a 2 W dz    D 2W  2a 2 DW  a 4 W dz  Ra 2  D  a 2  dz
                                                                                                                              2    2    F        2         2       2               2
                                Proof: Multiplying equation (15) by W (the
                                                                                                                    P                                             
                                complex conjugate of W) throughout and integrating                                       l 0           Pl 0                                 0
                                 the resulting equation over the vertical range of z,
                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                we get                                                                                 1                                                1            1
                                                                                                                    Q   D 2 K  2a 2 DK  a 4 K dz   r  Ra 2 Ep1   dz  Qp2  DK  a 2 K dz 
                                                                                                                                2         2       2                        2             2       2
                     1                                                                                                                          
                                          W  D 2  a 2 Wdz   W  D 2  a 2  Wdz
                                          1                                           1
                     
                                                                 F                  2                                                                                                             
                     P                                                                                              0                                                0            0
                       l                0                      Pl 0                                                                                                                                             (29)
                                                                                                                   and
                      Ra 2  W  dz  Q  W  DD 2  a 2 Kdz ,
                                     1                    1


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                  (22)              1
                                                                                                                        1                                                             1                            1

                                                                                                                       DW  a W dz  Ra Ep1   dz  Qp2  DK  a K dz
                                                                                                                            2    2  2          2   2           2   2 2

                                                                                                                    0
                                     0                    0
                                Taking complex conjugate on both sides of equation                                                               0         0

                                (17), we get                                                                       ,                                     (30)
                                D   2
                                                                  
                                           a 2  Ep1     W  ,                             (23)
                                                                                                                   Equation (30) implies that,

                                                                                                                                                                                                          dz , (31)
                                                                                                                                         1                    1
                                                                                                                   Ra 2 Ep1   dz  Qp 2  DK  a 2 K
                                                                                                                                                  2                               2                    2
                                Therefore, using (23), we get

                             W dz   D  a  Ep1  dz , (24)
                            1                         1                                                                                  0                    0
                                           2   2        
                                                                                                                   is negative definite and also,

                                                                                                                                                         dz  ap
                                                                                                                        1                                                 2   1
                            0                         0
                                                                                                                   Q  DK  a 2 K                                             W
                                                                                                                                         2            2                                   2
                                Also taking complex conjugate on both sides of                                                                                                                dz ,          (32)
                                                                                                                        0                                                 2 0
                                equation (16), we get
                                                             
                                 D 2  a 2  p 2  K    DW  ,    (25)                                         We first note that since W ,  and K satisfy
                                Therefore, using (25) and using boundary condition                                 W (0)  0  W (1) , (0)  0  (1)     and
                                (18), we get                                                                       K (0)  0  K (1) in addition to satisfying to

W DD               a 2 Kdz   DW  D 2  a 2 Kdz   K D 2  a 2 D 2  a 2  p2  K  dz ,
1                                         1                                   1                                    governing equations and hence we have from the
                                                                                                                                                                   
               2
                                                                                                                   Rayleigh-Ritz inequality 24
0                                         0                                   0
                                                                                                                   1                                  1

                                                                                                                    DW                  dz   2  W dz ;
                                                   (26)                                                                              2                        2
                                Substituting (24) and (26) in the right hand side of
                                                                                                                   0                                  0
                                equation (22), we get
                                                                                                                   1                                  1
         1                
                             W  D 2  a 2 Wdz   W  D 2  a 2  Wdz
                                1                                                 1

                                                                                                                    DK                  dz   2  K dz ,
                                                    F                                                                                2                        2
         
                                                                       2
         P                
           l               0                      Pl 0                                                           0                                  0

                                                                                                                                                           
 Ra 2  D 2  a 2  Ep1    dz  Q  K D 2  a 2 D 2  a 2  p 2  K  dz
            1                                                     1
                                                                                                                       and Banerjee et al. 25 have proved that,
                                                                                                                   1                                      1

                                                                                                                   DW                       dz   2  DW dz
            0                                                     0                                                             2        2                                2
,                                                                   (27)
                                                                                                                   0                                      0
                                  Integrating the terms on both sides of
                                                                                                                   1                                      1
                         equation (27) for an appropriate number of times by
                                                                                                                   D               K dz   2  DK dz
                                                                                                                                2        2                            2
                         making use of the appropriate boundary conditions                                                                                                                                 (33)
                         (18) - (21), we get                                                                       0                                      0

  1 1
                                                 
                                                1                                                                          Further, multiplying equation (17) and its
                        DW  a 2 W dz    D 2W  2a 2 DW  a 4 W dz
                                             F
  
                           2          2               2           2        2
 P                                                                                                            complex conjugate (23), and integrating by parts
    l 0                                    Pl 0                                                                each term on right hand side of the resulting
                                                                                                                   equation for an appropriate number of times and
                                                                                                                   making use of boundary conditions on  namely
                                                                                                                   (0)  0  (1) along with (22), we get
                                                                         
                1
 Ra 2  D  a 2   Ep1   dz
                            2                 2                       2



                                                                                                                    D                                           
                                                                                                                                 a  dz  2Ep1 r  D  a  dz  E p1                          
                                                                                                                   1                                          1                                                                1               1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         dz   W dz
                0                                                                                                           2        2        2                               2       2        2              2    2       2           2           2


                                                                                                            dz
        1                                                                                 1
  Q   D 2 K  2a 2 DK  a 4 K dz  Qp 2   DK  a 2 K
              2         2       2                  2                                                     2
                                                                                                                 0                                          0                                                                0               0
     0
                                             0                                                                   ,                                                                (34)
.                                                      (28)                                                         since            r  0 , i           0 therefore the equation (34)
                                                                                                                   gives,




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                                                                                                                                                                            
                                               
                                                                                                                                                                              2
                                                                                                                                                                        a2
                1                                                        1                                                                                         2

                                                                         
                                                         2
                         D  a  dz W dz ,
                                                                                   2
                                                                                                                                                                                  is 4 at
                                2            2                                                                                                                                         2
                                                                                                                  (35)           Since the minimum value of
                0                                                        0                                                                                             a2
               And                                                                                                               a 2   2 0 .
                 1                                                           1
                                                         1                                                                       Hence, if
                   dz                                                      W dz ,
                                2                                                      2
                                                                                                                   (36)                          r  0         and               i  0,
                                             E 2 p1 
                                                             2           2
                 0                                                           0
                                                                                                                                                          Pl p 2       
               It is easily seen upon using the boundary conditions                                                              then    R                             .
                                                                                                                                           Ep1  p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl 
                                                                                                                                                               2      2
               (18) that                                                                                                                                                  
                              D                                       
                            1
                                                                                                                                 And this completes the proof of the theorem.
                                                  a 2  dz  Real
                                             2                       2
                                                                                                            part            of
                            0



                                                                                         D                       
                                                                                       1
                 1  2          
                                                                                                                              5. CONCLUSIONS
                   D  a dz                                                                          a 2 dz ,
                            2                                                                          2

                 0                                                                   0
                                                                                                                                 The inequality (40) for   r  0      and    i  0 , can
                                                                                                                                 be written as
                                                                                                            
                                                                             1
                                                                             D 2  a 2  dz
                                                                                                                                                                                  2
                                                                                                                                              R              Pl p 2        
                                                                                                                                  r   i 
                                                                                                                                    2        2
                                                                                                                                                                              ,
                                                                                                                                              Ep1 p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl 
                                                                             0                                                                                     2       2
                                                                                                                                                                              
                    D 2  a 2  dz ,
                        1
                                                                                                                                           The essential content of the theorem, from
                                                                                                                                 the point of view of linear stability theory is that for
                        0
                                                                                                                                 the configuration of couple-stress fluid of infinite
                                                                                                                                 horizontal extension heated form below, having top
                   D 2  a 2  dz
                        1
                                                                                                                                 and bottom bounding surfaces are of infinite
                                                                                                                                 horizontal extension, at the top and bottom of the
                        0                                                                                                        fluid and are perfectly conducting with any arbitrary
                                                     1                                                       1                   combination of dynamically free and rigid
                  1 2  2 1                 2
                   dz   D 2  a 2  dz  , (37)
                                          2
                                                                                                                               boundaries, in the presence of uniform vertical
                                                                                                                                 magnetic field parallel to the force field of gravity,
                  0       0                                                                                                  the complex growth rate of an arbitrary oscillatory
                                                                                                                                 motions of growing amplitude, lies inside a semi-
               (Utilizing Cauchy-Schwartz-inequality)                                                                            circle in the right half of the  r  i - plane whose
               Upon utilizing the inequality (35) and (36),
                                                                                                                                 Centre is at the origin and radius is equal
               inequality (37) gives
                                                                                                                                                    Pl p 2         
                      D                                                                                                      to  R 
                    1                                                                          1
                                                                                   1                                                                                   , Where R is the
                                             a 2  dz                                        W
                                    2                        2                                         2
                                                                                                           dz ,           (38)
                                                                                                                                     Ep1  p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl 
                                                                                                                                                         2       2
                    0
                                                                                 Ep1          0
                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                 thermal Rayleigh number, F is the couple-stress
                    Now R  0, Pl  0 ,   0 , F  0 and  r  0 , thus
                                                                                                                                 parameter of the fluid, Pl is the medium
                   upon utilizing (31) and the inequalities (32),( (33)
                   and (38), the equation (29) gives,                                                                            permeability,  is the porosity of the porous
                           F         1 2          R 
                                                            1                                                                    medium, p1 is the thermal Prandtl number and p 2 is
                                 a2                    W 2 dz 0 , (39)
                                                   Ep1   
 I 1  a 2 ( 2  a 2 ) 2            P p                                                                                     the magnetic Prandtl number. The result is
           
                           Pl        l       2          0                                                                    important since the exact solutions of the problem
                   Where                                                                                                         investigated in closed form, are not obtainable, for
              1
                                       
                                        a2 1 2
                                                                                                                               any arbitrary combinations of perfectly conducting
                    1                                      1
 I 1   r   DW dz  r  W dz Qa 2  DK  a 2 K dz
                               2                                  2        2
         P                             0
                                                                                                                                 dynamically free and rigid boundaries and it
                l 0                                      0                                                                     provides an important improvement to Banyal and
                                                                                                                                 Khanna 26 .
,
                   is positive definite.
                   Therefore , we must have
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  • 1. Ajaib S. Banyal, Daleep K. Sharma / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 5, September- October 2012, pp.1265-1271 On The Region For Linear Growth Rate Of Perturbation In Magneto-Thermal Convection In A Couple-Stress Fluid In A Porous Medium Ajaib S. Banyal1* and Daleep K. Sharma2 1* Department of Mathematics, Govt. College Nadaun, Dist. Hamirpur, (HP) INDIA 2 Department of Mathematics, Rajiv Gandhi G. C. Kotshera, Shimla (HP), INDIA ABSTRACT A layer of couple-stress fluid heated thermal instability (Bénard Convection) in from below in a porous medium is considered in Newtonian fluids, under varying assumptions of the presence of uniform vertical magnetic field. hydrodynamics and hydromagnetics, has been given Following the linearized stability theory and by Chandrasekhar 1  and the Boussinesq normal mode analysis, the paper through approximation has been used throughout, which mathematical analysis of the governing equations states that the density changes are disregarded in all of couple-stress fluid convection with a uniform other terms in the equation of motion, except in the vertical magnetic field in porous medium, for any external force term. The formation and derivation of combination of perfectly conducting free and the basic equations of a layer of fluid heated from rigid boundaries of infinite horizontal extension below in a porous medium, using the Boussinesq at the top and bottom of the fluid, established approximation, has been given in a treatise by that the complex growth rate  of oscillatory perturbations, neutral or unstable, must lie  Joseph 2 . When a fluid permeates through an inside a semi-circle isotropic and homogeneous porous medium, the gross effect is represented by Darcy’s law. The 2 study of layer of fluid heated from below in porous  R  Pl p 2  media is motivated both theoretically and by its   2   ,   Ep1 p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl  2 2  practical applications in engineering. Among the applications in engineering disciplines one can name in the right half of a complex  -plane, Where R the food processing industry, the chemical is the thermal Rayleigh number, F is the couple- processing industry, solidification, and the stress parameter of the fluid, Pl is the medium centrifugal casting of metals. The development of permeability,  is the porosity of the porous geothermal power resources has increased general interest in the properties of convection in a porous medium, p1 is the thermal Prantl number and p 2 is the magnetic Prandtl number, which  medium. Stommel and Fedorov 3 and Linden 4  prescribes the upper limits to the complex have remarked that the length scales characteristic growth rate of arbitrary oscillatory motions of of double-diffusive convecting layers in the ocean growing amplitude in the couple-stress fluid may be sufficiently large so that the Earth’s rotation heated from below in the presence of uniform might be important in their formation. Moreover, the vertical magnetic field in a porous medium. The rotation of the Earth distorts the boundaries of a result is important since the exact solutions of the hexagonal convection cell in a fluid through porous problem investigated in closed form, are not medium, and this distortion plays an important role obtainable for any arbitrary combinations of in the extraction of energy in geothermal regions. perfectly conducting dynamically free and rigid The forced convection in a fluid saturated porous boundaries.  medium channel has been studied by Nield et al 5 . An extensive and updated account of convection in Key Words: Thermal convection; Couple-Stress porous media has been given by Nield and Fluid; Magnetic field; PES; Chandrasekhar number. MSC 2000 No.: 76A05, 76E06, 76E15; 76E07.  Bejan 6 . The effect of a magnetic field on the 1. INTRODUCTION stability of such a flow is of interest in geophysics, Right from the conceptualizations of particularly in the study of the earth’s core, where the earth’s mantle, which consist of conducting turbulence, instability of fluid flows is being fluid, behaves like a porous medium that can regarded at its root. A detailed account of the theoretical and experimental study of the onset of become conductively unstable as result of differential diffusion. Another application of the 1265 | P a g e
  • 2. Ajaib S. Banyal, Daleep K. Sharma / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 5, September- October 2012, pp. results of flow through a porous medium in the diseases of joints are caused by or connected with a presence of magnetic field is in the study of the malfunction of the lubrication. The external stability of convective geothermal flow. A good efficiency of the physiological joint lubrication is account of the effect of rotation and magnetic field caused by more mechanisms. The synovial fluid is on the layer of fluid heated from below has been caused by the content of the hyaluronic acid, a fluid  given in a treatise by Chandrasekhar 1 . of high viscosity, near to a gel. A layer of such fluid heated from below in a porous medium under the MHD finds vital applications in MHD action of magnetic field and rotation may find generators, MHD flow-meters and pumps for applications in physiological processes. MHD finds pumping liquid metals in metallurgy, geophysics, applications in physiological processes such as MHD couplers and bearings, and physiological magnetic therapy; rotation and heating may find processes such magnetic therapy. With the growing applications in physiotherapy. The use of magnetic importance of non-Newtonian fluids in modern field is being made for the clinical purposes in technology and industries, investigations of such detection and cure of certain diseases with the help fluids are desirable. The presence of small amounts of magnetic field devices.   of additives in a lubricant can improve bearing performance by increasing the lubricant viscosity Sharma and Thakur 15 have studied the and thus producing an increase in the load capacity. thermal convection in couple-stress fluid in porous These additives in a lubricant also reduce the medium in hydromagnetics. Sharma and coefficient of friction and increase the temperature   Sharma 16 have studied the couple-stress fluid range in which the bearing can operate. heated from below in porous medium. Kumar and Darcy’s law governs the flow of a Newtonian fluid through an isotropic and   Kumar 17 have studied the combined effect of homogeneous porous medium. However, to be dust particles, magnetic field and rotation on couple- mathematically compatible and physically stress fluid heated from below and for the case of consistent with the Navier-Stokes equations, stationary convection, found that dust particles have Brinkman 7 heuristically proposed the destabilizing effect on the system, where as the rotation is found to have stabilizing effect on the  2 introduction of the term  q, (now known as system, however couple-stress and magnetic field  are found to have both stabilizing and destabilizing Brinkman term) in addition to the Darcian term effects under certain conditions. Sunil et al. 18     have studied the global stability for thermal    q . But the main effect is through the k  convection in a couple-stress fluid heated from  1 below and found couple-stress fluids are thermally Darcian term; Brinkman term contributes very little more stable than the ordinary viscous fluids. effect for flow through a porous medium. Therefore,   Pellow and Southwell 19 proved the Darcy’s law is proposed heuristically to govern the validity of PES for the classical Rayleigh-Bénard flow of this non-Newtonian couple-stress fluid through porous medium. A number of theories of   convection problem. Banerjee et al 20 gave a new the micro continuum have been postulated and scheme for combining the governing equations of   applied (Stokes 8 ; Lai et al 9 ; Walicka 10 ).   thermohaline convection, which is shown to lead to  the bounds for the complex growth rate of the The theory due to Stokes 8 allows for polar effects arbitrary oscillatory perturbations, neutral or such as the presence of couple stresses and body unstable for all combinations of dynamically rigid or  couples. Stokes’s 8 theory has been applied to the free boundaries and, Banerjee and Banerjee 21   study of some simple lubrication problems (see e.g. established a criterion on characterization of non-   Sinha et al 11 ; Bujurke and Jayaraman 12 ;   oscillatory motions in hydrodynamics which was   Lin 13 ). According to the theory of Stokes 8 ,   further extended by Gupta et al. 22 . However no such result existed for non-Newtonian fluid couple-stresses are found to appear in noticeable configurations, in general and for couple-stress fluid   magnitudes in fluids with very large molecules. Since the long chain hyaluronic acid molecules are configurations, in particular. Banyal 23 have found as additives in synovial fluid, Walicki and characterized the non-oscillatory motions in couple-   Walicka 14 modeled synovial fluid as couple stress fluid. Keeping in mind the importance of couple- stress fluid in human joints. The study is motivated stress fluids and magnetic field in porous media, as by a model of synovial fluid. The synovial fluid is stated above,, the present paper is an attempt to natural lubricant of joints of the vertebrates. The prescribe the upper limits to the complex growth detailed description of the joints lubrication has very rate of arbitrary oscillatory motions of growing important practical implications; practically all amplitude, in a layer of incompressible couple-stress 1266 | P a g e
  • 3. Ajaib S. Banyal, Daleep K. Sharma / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 5, September- October 2012, pp. fluid in a porous medium heated from below, in the  presence of uniform vertical magnetic field, . H  0 , (4) opposite to force field of gravity, when the bounding  surfaces are of infinite horizontal extension, at the dH    top and bottom of the fluid and are perfectly   ( H .) q   H , 2 (5) conducting with any combination of dynamically dt free and rigid boundaries. d   The result is important since the exact Where    1 q . , stands for the solutions of the problem investigated in closed form, are not obtainable, for any arbitrary combination of dt t perfectly conducting dynamically free and rigid convective derivatives. Here boundaries.  c  E    (1   ) s s  , is a constant,  c  2. FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM  0 v AND PERTURBATION EQUATIONS Here we consider an infinite, horizontal, while  s , c s and  0 , c v , stands for the density incompressible electrically conducting couple-stress and heat capacity of the solid (porous matrix) fluid layer, of thickness d, heated from below so material and the fluid, respectively,  is the that, the temperature and density at the bottom  surface z = 0 are T 0 and  0 , at the upper surface z medium porosity and r ( x, y, z ) . = d are T d and  d respectively, and that a uniform The equation of state is  dT     0 1   T  T0  , (6) adverse temperature gradient       is Where the suffix zero refer to the values at the  dz   maintained. The fluid is acted upon by a uniform reference level z = 0. Here g 0,0, g  is  acceleration due to gravity and  is the coefficient vertical magnetic field H 0,0, H  . This fluid layer of thermal expansion. In writing the equation (1), is flowing through an isotropic and homogeneous we made use of the Boussinesq approximation, porous medium of porosity  and of medium which states that the density variations are ignored permeability k 1 . in all terms in the equation of motion except the  external force term. The kinematic viscosity , Let  , p, T,  ,  e and q u , v, w denote respectively the fluid density, pressure, couple-stress viscosity  ' , magnetic permeability temperature, resistivity, magnetic permeability and  e , thermal diffusivity  , and electrical resistivity filter velocity of the fluid, respectively Then the  , and the coefficient of thermal expansion  are momentum balance, mass balance, and energy balance equation of couple-stress fluid and all assumed to be constants. Maxwell’s equations through porous medium, The basic motionless solution is  governing the flow of couple-stress fluid in the q  0,0,0 ,    0 (1   z ) , p=p(z), presence of uniform vertical magnetic field (Stokes   8 ; Joseph 2 ; Chandrasekhar 1 ) are  T   z  T0 , (7) given by Here we use the linearized stability theory and     p     1  the normal mode analysis method. Assume small 1   q 1     '  perturbations around the basic solution, and let  ,   q .  q     g 1       2  q      k    t      o  0  1  0         p ,  , q u, v, w and h  hx , h y , hz denote    respectively the perturbations in density  , pressure  e (  H )  H , (1) 4 o   p, temperature T, velocity q (0,0,0) and the . q  0 ,  magnetic field H  0,0, H  . The change in (2)  density  , caused mainly by the perturbation  in dT E  ( q .)T   2T , (3) temperature, is given by dt 1267 | P a g e
  • 4. Ajaib S. Banyal, Daleep K. Sharma / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 5, September- October 2012, pp.      0 1   T    T0      0 , i.e. Where we have introduced new coordinates    0 . (8) x' , y' , z ' = (x/d, y/d, z/d) in new units of length d and D  d / dz' . For convenience, the dashes are Then the linearized perturbation equations dropped hereafter. Also we have substituted of the couple-sress fluid reduces to nd 2   a  kd,   , p1  , is the thermal 1 q 1  1   '           p  g      2  q  e    h   H   t 0 k1   0  4 0     Prandtl number; p 2  , is the magnetic Prandtl , (9)   k1 number; Pl  . q  0 , (10) d2 is the dimensionless medium   ' /(  0 d 2 ) E  w   2 , (11) permeability, F  , is the t dimensionless couple-stress viscosity parameter;  . h  0 , g d 4 (12) R , is the thermal Rayleigh number and    h     e H 2 d 2    H .  q   2 h . (13) Q , is the Chandrasekhar number. t   4 0 Also we have Substituted W  W , 3. NORMAL MODE ANALYSIS Analyzing the disturbances into two-  d 2   Hd  dimensional waves, and considering disturbances       , K     K  ,  characterized by a particular wave number, we     assume that the Perturbation quantities are of the and D  dD , and dropped   for convenience. form Now consider the case for any combination of w, , h   W z , z , K ( z ) exp the horizontal boundaries as, rigid-rigid or rigid-free z, or free-rigid or free-free at z=0 and z=1, as the case ik x  ik y  nt  , x y (14) may be, and are perfectly conducting. The boundaries are maintained at constant temperature, Where k x , k y are the wave numbers along thus the perturbations in the temperature are zero at the boundaries. The appropriate boundary the x- and y-directions, respectively, conditions with respect to which equations (15)-   , is the resultant wave number, n 1 (17), must possess a solution are k  kx  k y 2 2 2 W = 0=  , on both the horizontal boundaries, (18) is the growth rate which is, in general, a complex DW=0, on a rigid boundary, (19) constant and, W ( z ), ( z ) and K (z ) are the D 2W  0 ,on a dynamically free boundary, 20) functions of z only. K = 0,on both the boundaries as the regions Using (14), equations (9)-(13), Within the outside the fluid are perfectly conducting, (21) framework of Boussinesq approximations, in the non-dimensional form transform to Equations (15)-(17) and appropriately adequate boundary conditions from (18)-(21), pose   1 an eigenvalue problem for  and we wish to D 2  a 2     F 2   D  a2  P  W  Ra   QDD  2 2  a2 K  Characterize  i , when  r  0 .   Pl   l   , (15) D 2 2   a  p 2 K   DW , (16) 4. MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS We prove the following theorems: and Theorem 1: If R  0 , F  0, Q 0, r  0 D  and 2  a 2  Ep1   W , (17)  i  0 then the necessary condition for the existence of non-trivial solution W , , K  of equations (15) - (17) and the boundary conditions (18), (21) and any combination of (19) and (20) is that 1268 | P a g e
  • 5. Ajaib S. Banyal, Daleep K. Sharma / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 5, September- October 2012, pp. And equating the real and imaginary parts  R  Pl p 2  on both sides of equation (28), and cancelling     .  i ( 0) throughout from imaginary part, we get  Ep1   p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl  2 2    r 1 1     1 1    DW  a 2 W dz    D 2W  2a 2 DW  a 4 W dz  Ra 2  D  a 2  dz  2 2 F 2 2 2 2 Proof: Multiplying equation (15) by W (the  P   complex conjugate of W) throughout and integrating  l 0 Pl 0   0 the resulting equation over the vertical range of z,     we get 1 1 1  Q   D 2 K  2a 2 DK  a 4 K dz   r  Ra 2 Ep1   dz  Qp2  DK  a 2 K dz  2 2 2 2 2 2  1     W  D 2  a 2 Wdz   W  D 2  a 2  Wdz 1 1   F 2      P  0 0 0  l 0 Pl 0 (29) and   Ra 2  W  dz  Q  W  DD 2  a 2 Kdz , 1 1     (22) 1 1 1 1  DW  a W dz  Ra Ep1   dz  Qp2  DK  a K dz 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 Taking complex conjugate on both sides of equation 0 0 (17), we get , (30) D 2   a 2  Ep1     W  , (23) Equation (30) implies that,  dz , (31) 1 1 Ra 2 Ep1   dz  Qp 2  DK  a 2 K 2 2 2 Therefore, using (23), we get  W dz   D  a  Ep1  dz , (24) 1 1 0 0  2 2   is negative definite and also,  dz  ap 1 2 1 0 0 Q  DK  a 2 K W 2 2 2 Also taking complex conjugate on both sides of dz , (32) 0 2 0 equation (16), we get   D 2  a 2  p 2  K    DW  , (25) We first note that since W ,  and K satisfy Therefore, using (25) and using boundary condition W (0)  0  W (1) , (0)  0  (1) and (18), we get K (0)  0  K (1) in addition to satisfying to W DD  a 2 Kdz   DW  D 2  a 2 Kdz   K D 2  a 2 D 2  a 2  p2  K  dz , 1 1 1 governing equations and hence we have from the    2 Rayleigh-Ritz inequality 24 0 0 0 1 1  DW dz   2  W dz ; (26) 2 2 Substituting (24) and (26) in the right hand side of 0 0 equation (22), we get 1 1  1   W  D 2  a 2 Wdz   W  D 2  a 2  Wdz 1 1  DK dz   2  K dz , F 2 2   2  P   l 0 Pl 0 0 0    Ra 2  D 2  a 2  Ep1    dz  Q  K D 2  a 2 D 2  a 2  p 2  K  dz 1 1 and Banerjee et al. 25 have proved that, 1 1 DW dz   2  DW dz 0 0 2 2 2 , (27) 0 0 Integrating the terms on both sides of 1 1 equation (27) for an appropriate number of times by D K dz   2  DK dz 2 2 2 making use of the appropriate boundary conditions (33) (18) - (21), we get 0 0   1 1   1 Further, multiplying equation (17) and its DW  a 2 W dz    D 2W  2a 2 DW  a 4 W dz F    2 2 2 2 2  P    complex conjugate (23), and integrating by parts  l 0 Pl 0   each term on right hand side of the resulting equation for an appropriate number of times and making use of boundary conditions on  namely (0)  0  (1) along with (22), we get   1  Ra 2  D  a 2   Ep1   dz 2 2 2  D   a  dz  2Ep1 r  D  a  dz  E p1   1 1 1 1  dz   W dz 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2  dz 1 1  Q   D 2 K  2a 2 DK  a 4 K dz  Qp 2   DK  a 2 K 2 2 2 2 2   0 0 0 0 0   0 , (34) . (28) since  r  0 , i  0 therefore the equation (34) gives, 1269 | P a g e
  • 6. Ajaib S. Banyal, Daleep K. Sharma / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 5, September- October 2012, pp.     2  a2 1 1 2  2 D  a  dz W dz , 2 is 4 at 2 2 2 (35) Since the minimum value of 0 0 a2 And a 2   2 0 . 1 1 1 Hence, if   dz  W dz , 2 2 (36) r  0 and i  0, E 2 p1  2 2 0 0   Pl p 2  It is easily seen upon using the boundary conditions then    R   .  Ep1  p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl  2 2 (18) that     D  1 And this completes the proof of the theorem.  a 2  dz  Real 2 2 part of 0   D  1  1  2     5. CONCLUSIONS    D  a dz    a 2 dz , 2 2  0  0 The inequality (40) for r  0 and  i  0 , can be written as   1     D 2  a 2  dz 2  R  Pl p 2   r   i  2 2   ,  Ep1 p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl  0 2 2       D 2  a 2  dz , 1 The essential content of the theorem, from the point of view of linear stability theory is that for 0 the configuration of couple-stress fluid of infinite horizontal extension heated form below, having top    D 2  a 2  dz 1 and bottom bounding surfaces are of infinite horizontal extension, at the top and bottom of the 0 fluid and are perfectly conducting with any arbitrary 1 1 combination of dynamically free and rigid 1 2  2 1 2    dz   D 2  a 2  dz  , (37) 2   boundaries, in the presence of uniform vertical magnetic field parallel to the force field of gravity, 0  0  the complex growth rate of an arbitrary oscillatory motions of growing amplitude, lies inside a semi- (Utilizing Cauchy-Schwartz-inequality) circle in the right half of the  r  i - plane whose Upon utilizing the inequality (35) and (36), Centre is at the origin and radius is equal inequality (37) gives   Pl p 2    D  to  R  1 1 1  , Where R is the  a 2  dz  W 2 2 2 dz , (38)  Ep1  p 2 (1  4 F )   Pl  2 2 0 Ep1  0   thermal Rayleigh number, F is the couple-stress Now R  0, Pl  0 ,   0 , F  0 and  r  0 , thus parameter of the fluid, Pl is the medium upon utilizing (31) and the inequalities (32),( (33) and (38), the equation (29) gives, permeability,  is the porosity of the porous  F  1 2 R  1 medium, p1 is the thermal Prandtl number and p 2 is  a2   W 2 dz 0 , (39) Ep1    I 1  a 2 ( 2  a 2 ) 2  P p  the magnetic Prandtl number. The result is   Pl  l 2  0 important since the exact solutions of the problem Where investigated in closed form, are not obtainable, for  1    a2 1 2   any arbitrary combinations of perfectly conducting 1 1 I 1   r   DW dz  r  W dz Qa 2  DK  a 2 K dz 2 2 2   P  0 dynamically free and rigid boundaries and it  l 0 0 provides an important improvement to Banyal and Khanna 26 . , is positive definite. Therefore , we must have REFRENCES  2 1 ( 2  a 2 ) 2  F  , 1 . R      P  Chandrasekhar, S., Hydrodynamic and Ep1  p 2 Pl a2  l Hydromagnetic Stability, Dover which implies that Publications, New York 1981. R  4 2 F  2 1   (40)  2 . Joseph, D.D., Stability of fluid motions, Ep1  Pl p 2 Pl vol.II, Springer-Verlag, berlin, 1976. 1270 | P a g e
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