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The effect of throughflow and magnetic field on the onset of Bénard convection in a horizontal layer of micropolar fluid permeated between two rigid, isothermal and micro-rotation free boundaries is studied. The determination of the critical Rayleigh number entails in solving the eigenvalue problem numerically for which the single-term Galerkin method is employed. It is established that both stabilizing and destabilizing factors can be enhanced by throughflow.
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Murty, Y.N. Effect of throughflow and magnetic field on Bénard convection in micropolar fluids. Acta Mechanica 150, 11–21 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01178541
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