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Thermosolutal convection of micropolar fluids in hydromagnetics

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The thermosolutal convection in a layer of electrically conducting micropolar fluids heated and soluted from below in the presence of a uniform vertical magnetic field is considered. The presence of coupling between thermosolutal and micropolar effects may bring overstability in the system. The magnetic field also introduces oscillatory modes in the system and the Rayleigh number is found to increase with the increase in magnetic field. The possibility of oscillatory motions and the increase in Rayleigh number with increase in magnetic field is depicted graphically.

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

    Veena Sharma

  2. Department of Mathematics, Government Postgraduate College, Mandi, Himachal, Pradesh, 175 001, India

    Sanjeev Kumar

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Sharma, V., Kumar, S. Thermosolutal convection of micropolar fluids in hydromagnetics. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 50, 1133–1146 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022804717809

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