Anisotropic Darcy–Brinkman Magnetic Fluid Convection under the Influence of a Time-Dependent Sinusoidal Magnetic Field

Abstract

The impact of the sinusoidal mode of a magnetic field involving time fluctuations on the threshold of the ferromagnetic smart liquid convection in a saturated permeable medium is investigated using the regular perturbation technique. The Darcy–Brinkman model with anisotropic permeability is used to describe the flow through porous media. The thermal anisotropy is implemented in the energy equation. The problem might be useful in thermal engineering applications such as dynamic loudspeakers and computer hard discs and in medical applications like the treatment of tumor cells and the cell separation, to name a few. The regular perturbation technique is based on the minimum amplitude of a magnetic field modulation, and the onset criterion is dealt with in terms of a correction in the critical Rayleigh number and wavenumber. The thermal Rayleigh number correction depends on the magnetic field modulation frequency, magnetic force, anisotropies, porosity, and Prandtl number. At moderate values of the magnetic field modulation frequency, the impact of various physical factors is perceived to be noteworthy. The influences of the magnetic mechanism, Prandtl number, porosity parameter, and Brinkman number are shown to augment the destabilizing effect of the magnetic field modulation for moderate values of the frequency of a modulation. However, the destabilizing effect of the magnetic field modulation is diminished due to an increase in the values of the mechanical anisotropy parameter and thermal anisotropy parameter. The study reveals that the effect of the magnetic field modulation could be exploited to control the convective instability in an anisotropic porous medium saturated by a ferromagnetic fluid.