Exploration of energy‐based volumetric heating on ferrothermal porous convection: Effects of MFD viscosity and boundary conditions

Abstract

AbstractThe impact of energy‐based volumetric internal heating and magnetic field‐dependent (MFD) viscosity on the onset of ferrothermal porous convection for different types of boundary conditions is investigated. The lower and upper boundaries are considered to be either rigid or stress‐free. The lower boundary is insulating, while at the upper boundary a Robin type of thermal condition is applied. Besides this, a general type of boundary conditions is invoked on the magnetic potential. The stability eigenvalue problem is solved numerically using the Galerkin‐type of weighted residuals technique with the Rayleigh number, as the eigenvalue. The results obtained for different boundary combinations are found to be qualitatively similar though not quantitatively. The effect of Biot number, MFD viscosity, and porous parameters is to hinder, while the influence of internal heat source strength, magnetic number, and the nonlinearity of fluid magnetization is to advance the onset of convection. The rigid and conducting boundaries offer a more stabilizing influence on the onset when compared to stress‐free and insulating boundaries. The convection cells get contracted the most when the boundaries are rigid and also when the upper boundary is conducting. The results delineated under the limiting cases are found to be in good agreement with those available in the literature.