Abstract
This paper investigates Darcy–Brinkman thermal convection in the stratified porous saturated suspension of active particles subjected to vertical oscillation. For a heated layer, in the context of no-slip boundaries, the derived critical numbers are found to be real-valued, which signifies that the mechanism of convection is through the stationary mode, although for a certain range of heat parameters, oscillatory convection is inevitable. The dispersion expressions are developed to characterize the stationary and overstability thresholds of the system using the Galerkin method. An attempt has been made to analyze and substantiate the significance of important parameters such as modified Darcy number \((D_\textrm{a})\), wave number \((\alpha ^{\jmath })\), and Rayleigh numbers [bioconvection \((R_\textrm{b})\), thermal \((R_\textrm{a})\), and their vibrational analogs \((R_\textrm{v}, R_\textrm{t})\) ] for the representative ranges of Péclet \((1\le \hbox {Pe} \le 2)\) and gyrotactic \((1\le G\le 5)\) numbers. While incremental gyrotactic propulsion encourages the decrease in bioconvection strength, higher Péclet values induce the suspension to stabilize. Porosity has a destabilizing effect that considerably lessens the ability of vertical vibration to stabilize. The layer becomes unstable due to the thermal-oscillational connection of the thermal vibration parameter, which slows the development of bioconvection blooms.
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Abbreviations
- a :
-
Semi-major axis of spheroidal cell
- b :
-
Semi-minor axis of spheroidal cell
- \(\hat{b}\) :
-
Vibration amplitude (s)
- B :
-
Parameter of swimmers orientation
- \(c_\textrm{a}\) :
-
Acceleration coefficient
- \(c_\textrm{p}\) :
-
Specific heat \( ({\text{J}}\;{\text{kg}}^{{ - 1}} \;{\text{K}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- \(D_\textrm{c}\) :
-
Diffusivity of cell \( ({\text{m}}^{2} \;{\text{s}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- g :
-
Gravity
- \({\textbf {g}}\) :
-
Gravity vector \( ({\text{m}}\;{\text{s}}^{{ - 2}} ) \)
- h :
-
Displacement of the center of mass of cell from its centre of buoyancy
- \({\textbf {k}}\) :
-
Vertically upward unit vector
- \(\overline{n}\) :
-
Number density of cells \( ({\text{mol}}\;{\text{m}}^{{ - 3}} ) \)
- \(n _\textrm{av}\) :
-
Cells mean concentration
- \(\overline{p}\) :
-
Average pressure \( ({\text{kg}}\;{\text{m}}^{{ - 1}} \;{\text{s}}^{{ - 2}} ) \)
- \(\hat{{\textbf {p}}}\) :
-
Unit vector indicating the average direction of swimming
- \(q_\textrm{c}\) :
-
Average up-swimming velocity of cells
- t :
-
Time (s)
- \(\overline{T}\) :
-
Mean temperature (K)
- \(T_{0}\) :
-
Temperature at top wall
- \(T_{0}+\Delta T\) :
-
Temperature at lower wall
- \(\overline{{\textbf {v}}}\) :
-
Mean fluid velocity \( ({\text{m}}\;{\text{s}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- \(\Bbbk \) :
-
Permeability \((m^{2})\)
- l :
-
Depth of the layer (m)
- \(\alpha ^{\jmath }\) :
-
Dimensionless wave number
- \(\mho \) :
-
Density measure of micro-swimmers
- \(\hbox {Da} = \Bbbk / l^{2}\) :
-
Darcy number
- \(D_\textrm{a} = \Bbbk \mu /l^{2}\tilde{\mu }\) :
-
Modified Darcy number
- G :
-
Gyrotaxis number
- Le:
-
Lewis number
- Pe:
-
Bioconvection Péclet number
- Pr:
-
Prandtl number
- \(R_\textrm{a} = \rho _\textrm{f}^{2}c_\textrm{p}g\beta \Delta {T}\Bbbk l/\mu \kappa \) :
-
Thermal Rayleigh–Darcy number
- \(R_\textrm{b} = \Bbbk q_\textrm{c}g\nu \theta \Delta \rho l^2/\mu D_\textrm{c}^{2}\) :
-
Bioconvection Rayleigh–Darcy number
- \(R_\textrm{t} = \rho _\textrm{f} \Bbbk \theta \beta \nu q_\textrm{c}l\Delta {T}(\hat{b}\omega )^{2}/ 2\mu D_\textrm{c}^{2}\) :
-
Thermo-vibrational Darcy parameter
- \(R_{\upsilon } = \Bbbk \rho _\textrm{f}{[}\theta \hat{b}\omega \nu q_\textrm{c} l(\Delta \rho /\rho _\textrm{f}){]} {}^{2}/2\mu D_\textrm{c}^{3}\) :
-
Vibrational Rayleigh–Darcy number
- \(\alpha \) :
-
Wave number \( ({\text{m}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- \(\alpha _{0}\) :
-
Cell eccentricity measurement
- \(\alpha _{\bot }\) :
-
Dimensionless constant relating viscous torque to the relative swimmers angular velocity
- \(\beta \) :
-
Measure of thermal expansion \( ({\text{K}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- \(\theta \) :
-
Average volume of cell \( ({\text{m}}^{3} ) \)
- \(\mu \) :
-
Viscosity (dynamic) \( ({\text{kg}}\;{\text{m}}^{{ - 1}} \;{\text{s}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- \(\nu \) :
-
Fundamental number density at bottom surface
- \(\rho _\textrm{c}\) :
-
Density of cell \( ({\text{kg}}\;{\text{m}}^{{ - 3}} ) \)
- \(\rho _\textrm{f}\) :
-
Density of fluid \( ({\text{kg}}\;{\text{m}}^{{ - 3}} ) \)
- \(\Delta \rho \) :
-
Difference in density \((\rho _\textrm{c} - \rho _\textrm{f})\) \( ({\text{kg}}\;{\text{m}}^{{ - 3}} ) \)
- \(\omega \) :
-
Vibration angular frequency \( ({\text{s}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- \(\phi \) :
-
Porosity of the medium
- \(\sigma \) :
-
Growth rate
- \(\kappa \) :
-
Temperature conductivity \( ({\text{W}}\;{\text{m}}^{{ - 1}} \;{\text{K}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- \(\tilde{\mu }\) :
-
Effective viscosity \( ({\text{kg}}\;{\text{m}}^{{ - 1}} \;{\text{s}}^{{ - 1}} ) \)
- \(\circledast \) :
-
Perturbed quantity
- −:
-
Mean component
- \(\jmath \) :
-
Dimensionless quantity
- av:
-
Average condition
- c:
-
Cell
- cr:
-
Critical condition
- b:
-
Basic state
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The functions \(\psi \), \(\psi _{1}\), \(\psi _{2}\), and \(\psi _{3}\) defined in Eq. (28), \(\delta _{\mathrm{i}}\), \(\gamma _{\mathrm{i}} \)(\(i=1...7\)) in Eq. (29) and \(\varphi _{\mathrm{i}} = \delta _{\mathrm{i}}/\gamma _{\mathrm{i}},(i=1,2....7)\) in Eq. (36) are given as follows:
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Kumar, V., Srikanth, K. & Grover, D. Darcy–Brinkman analysis of thermo-vibrational convection in gyrotactic swimmers: an overstability theory. J Therm Anal Calorim 148, 10189–10201 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-023-12383-y
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