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Study of nonlinear convection in a sparsely packed porous medium using spectral analysis

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Nonlinear study cellular convection in a sparsely packed fluid saturated porous medium is investigated, considering the Brinkman model, using the technique of spectral analysis. It is established how the Brinkman model with free-free boundaries generalizes the study of convection in a porous medium in the sense that it yields the results tending to those of viscous and Darcy flows respectively for very small and very large values of the permeability parameter σ2. It also provides results for the transition zone (i.e. 102<σ2<103). The cross-interaction of the linear modes caused by non-linear effects are considered through the modal Rayleigh number Rγ. The possibility of the existence of steady solution with two self-excited modes in certain regions is predicted. The similarities of present analysis with and advantages over that of the power integral technique are brought out. A detailed discussion of the heat transport, with the effect of permeability thereon, is made. The theoretical values of the Nusselt number are found to be in good agreement with experimental results.

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Rudraiah, N., Balachandra Rao, S. Study of nonlinear convection in a sparsely packed porous medium using spectral analysis. Applied Scientific Research 40, 223–245 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00388016

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