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We study the problem of convective movement of a reacting solute in a viscous incompressible fluid occupying a plane layer and subjected to a vertical magnetic field. The thresholds for linear instability are found and compared to those derived by a global nonlinear energy stability analysis.
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This work was supported in part by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust, “Tipping points: mathematics, metaphors and meanings”, and in part by a scholarship from the Iraqi ministry of higher education and scientific research.
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Harfash, A.J., Straughan, B. Magnetic effect on instability and nonlinear stability in a reacting fluid. Meccanica 47, 1849–1857 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-012-9558-x
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