Research Article

A Linear Stability Analysis of Thermal Convection in a Fluid Layer with Simultaneous Rotation and Magnetic Field Acting in Different Directions

Table 5

Thermal instability analysis in the presence of a rotation vector when both bounding surfaces are free: Gravity vector and rotation vector acting in different directions. Rayleigh numbers for the Taylor number = 100 and for various values of and .


0.0 2.594 826.28

0.5 2.5 836.54 2.0 2.62 943.16
2.6 833.77 2.74 932.00
2.64 833.84 3.00 933.42

1.0 2.5 861.92 4.0 2.76 1228.56
2.66 855.00 3.2 1145.92
2.72 855.35 3.4 1151.32