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Effect of Vertical Vibrations on the Onset of Binary Convection
 
 
 
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Department of Mathematics, Government College Gulbarga 585 105, Karnataka, INDIA
 
 
Online publication date: 2013-09-06
 
 
Publication date: 2013-08-01
 
 
International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2013;18(3):899-910
 
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In the present work the linear stability analysis of double diffusive convection in a binary fluid layer is performed. The major intention of this study is to investigate the influence of time-periodic vertical vibrations on the onset threshold. A regular perturbation method is used to compute the critical Rayleigh number and wave number. A closed form expression for the shift in the critical Rayleigh number is calculated as a function of frequency of modulation, the solute Rayleigh number, Lewis number, and Prandtl number. These parameters are found to have a significant influence on the onset criterion; therefore the effective control of convection is achieved by proper tuning of these parameters. Vertical vibrations are found to enhance the stability of a binary fluid layer heated and salted from below. The results of this study are useful in the areas of crystal growth in micro-gravity conditions and also in material processing industries where vertical vibrations are involved
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