Abstract
The non-linear three-dimensional thermoconvective instability of a second-order fluid layer between two parallel semi-infinite walls is analyzed under the fixed-heat flux boundary condition. In the analysis, the Boussinesq approximation is used to account for density changes in the system. It is shown that the non-linear time-dependent equation that governs the convective motion is of the same form as those obtained by Chapman and Proctor in the two-dimensional case and by Proctor (for infinitely thickwalls) in the three-dimensional case for Newtonian fluids. This result shows that the theorems of Tanner and Giesekus for planar, creeping flow of incompressible second-order fluids can be extended to three-dimensional, non-linear, time-dependent thermoconvective phenomena.
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