Thermosolutal Instability of Magneto-Hydrodynamic Flow through Porous Medium

Abstract

Thermosolutal instability in a heterogeneous fluid layer with free boundaries has been, studied in porous medium. Employing the normal mode technique, the solution has been obtained. For the case of conducting viscous, in compressible and heterogeneous fluids, the dispersion relation has been derived and solved numerically. It has been found that magnetic field shows stabilizing influence and porosity shows destabilizing effects on the thermosolutal instability.