The Effect of Rotation on Convective Instability in a Horizontal Fluid Layer with Internal Heat Generation

Abstract

The effect of uniform rotation on the onset of convective instability in a horizontal fluid layer with uniformly distributed internal heat sources is considered using linear stability theory. Under the assumption that the neutral state is a stationary one, the power series method is adopted to obtain the eigenvalue equation which is then computed numerically. The stability conditions influenced by uniform rotation are found for two sets of thermal boundary conditions.