Research Article

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

Table 2

Critical Rayleigh numbers and wave numbers at marginal stability for the onset of stationary convection when both bounding surfaces are rigid. Gravity vector parallel to the rotation vector . is the Taylor number. is the Rayleigh number obtained by the Tau Chebyshev method. is the Rayleigh number obtained by Chandrasekhar [1].


103.1
3.15
3.50
7.20
55.5