Abstract
The effect of non-uniform temperature gradient on the onset of Rayleigh-Bénard magnetoconvection in a Micropolar fluid with Maxwell-Cattaneo law is studied using the Galerkin technique. The eigenvalue is obtained for free-free, rigid-free and rigid-rigid velocity boundary combinations with isothermal condition on the spin-vanishing boundaries. A linear stability analysis is performed. The influence of various parameters on the onset of convection has been analyzed. One linear and five non-linear temperature profiles are considered and their comparative influence on onset of convection is discussed. The classical approach predicts an infinite speed for the propagation of heat. The present non-classical theory involves a wave type heat transport (Second Sound) and does not suffer from the physically unacceptable drawback of infinite heat propagation speed.
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