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The convection of a heat-conducting viscous liquid is considered. It is assumed that the liquid density depends quadratically on the temperature and pressure. The instability of the equilibrium state of a free-boundary horizontal layer with respect to small perturbations is studied using a linearization method. It is found that the state of mechanical equilibrium is unstable. Neutral curves are constructed and the critical Rayleigh numbers are found. The results are compared with the well-known solution of the same problem for the limiting case where the density is a quadratic function of temperature and does not depend on pressure.
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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 66–74, March–April, 2007.
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Bekezhanova, V.B. Stability of the equilibrium state in a convection model with nonlinear temperature and pressure dependences of density. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 48, 200–207 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10808-007-0026-7
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