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Rayleigh-taylor instability of viscoelastic fluids with suspended particles in porous medium in hydromagnetics

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The instability of the plane interface between two viscoelastic (Oldroydian) superposed conducting fluids permeated with suspended particles in porous medium is studied when the whole system is immersed in a uniform magnetic field. The dispersion relation for the Oldroydian viscoelastic fluid is obtained which also yields dispersion relations for Maxwellian and Newtonian fluids in special cases, in the presence of suspended particles in porous medium in hydromagnelics. The system is found to be stable for potentially stable case. The presence of magnetic field stabilizes certain wave number band whereas the system was unstable for all wave numbers in the absence of magnetic field, for the potentially unstable configuration. The growth rates increase (for certain wave numbers) and decrease (for other wave numbers) with the increase in stress relaxation time, strain retardation time, suspended particles number density and medium permeability.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, 171 005, Shimla, India

    R. C. Sharma & A. Rajput

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Sharma, R.C., Rajput, A. Rayleigh-taylor instability of viscoelastic fluids with suspended particles in porous medium in hydromagnetics. Czech J Phys 42, 919–926 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01605168

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