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The effect of temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity on the onset of compressible convection

Ali, A. A. & Silvers, L. J. ORCID: 0000-0003-0619-6756 (2020). The effect of temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity on the onset of compressible convection. GEOPHYSICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS, 115(2), pp. 207-220. doi: 10.1080/03091929.2020.1777549

Abstract

The linear equations of thermal convection in a compressible fluid with non-constant transport coefficients are derived. The criterion for the onset of convection is established, based on linear stability analysis, for a range of different temperature-dependent profiles of thermal conductivity and viscosity. Temperature-dependent transport coefficients are shown to lead to a more complex behaviour than their constant counterparts, and modifies the stability condition of the fluid. When the Rayleigh number is defined in terms of the mid-layer physical properties and the temperature gradient at the top is held constant, increasing the temperature-dependence of thermal conductivity is found to raise the critical Rayleigh number dramatically, as the convective disturbance is then concentrated mainly at the top of the layer. In contrast, for viscosity a more subtle effect on stability is identified.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher Keywords: Convection; instabilities; MHD; sun; interior; sun; magnetic fields
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Mathematics
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