Research Article

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

Table 8

Thermal instability analysis in the presence of a magnetic field when both bounding surfaces are rigid: gravity vector and magnetic field vector acting in different directions. Rayleigh numbers for the dimensionless parameter = 100 and for various values of and . is the Rayleigh number obtained by the Tau Chebyshev method. is the Rayleigh number obtained by Chandrasekhar [1].


0.0 4.0 3757.27 3757.3

0.5 3.9 3785.12 3797.0 2.0 3.9 4146.18 4190.0
4.0 3780.70 3793.0 4.0 4136.55 4181.0
4.1 3782.82 3795.0 4.1 4133.94 4178.0

1.0 3.9 3856.64 3875.0 4.0 3.9 5356.98 5523.0
4.0 3851.20 3878.0 4.0 5328.39 5494.0
4.1 3852.41 3871.0 4.1 5308.46 5474.0