Abstract

The combined effects of Coriolis force, heat, and mass diffusion for the convection in a horizontal rectangular channel filled with fluid in both isotropic and anisotropic porous channels is studied in the three-dimensional case for which the governing equations with the boundary conditions are derived with the help of the following assumptions: the fluid is incompressible; the flow is axisymmetric about the y-axis; the fluid is steady; thermal diffusion is larger than the viscous diffusion. With the help of the stream function, the resultant equations are made dimensionless, and non-dimension parameters like Rac, Rs along with anisotropic aspect ratio of permeabilities and thermal diffusivities are introduced. Later, the resulting linear partial differential equations are solved by the method of Fourier series analysis. The effect of the non-dimensional numbers plays a vital role in controlling parameters like velocity, temperature, and concentration for both isotropic and anisotropic cases. The expression for critical Rayleigh number has been established for both isotropic and anisotropic cases. Various computations are carried out in order to study the effects of velocity, temperature, concentration, and Critical Rayleigh number for different values of non-dimensional parameters. The obtained results are in good agreement with previous literary works and also have a wide application in the real world which can be seen in different industries.

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