Effects of g-jitter and cross-diffusion on the onset of convection in doubly diffusive systemsThe effects of a modulated gravity field in doubly diffusive layers with and without cross-diffusion are studied. Attention is focused on the determination of linear stability criteria for such systems. Floquet theory is used to establish the stability criteria by a systematic analysis of the topology of the neutral curves from which stability boundaries can be constructed. Convective stability boundaries for gravity-modulated doubly cross-diffusive systems are presented for the cases of dynamically free and rigid boundaries. Two physically different forms of layer stratification are considered: (1) imposed independent gradients of two components and (2) a solute gradient induced by a fixed temperature gradient.
Document ID
19920043081
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Terrones, Guillermo (Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories Richland, WA, United States)
Chen, C. F. (Arizona, University Tucson, United States)