Analytical and Numerical Study of the Onset of Electroconvection in a Dielectric Nanofluid Saturated a Rotating Darcy Porous Medium

Abstract

The simultaneous effect of rotation and a vertical AC electric field on the onset of electroconvection in a horizontal dielectric nanofluid layer saturated a Darcy porous medium is investigated. The boundaries of the dielectric nanofluid layer are considered isothermal, where the vertical nanoparticle flux is zero. The resulting eigenvalue problem is solved analytically by the Galerkin weighted residuals technique (GWRT) and numerically using the power series method (PSM) .The results show that the onset of electroconvection in dielectric nanofluids can be accelerated when we increase the AC electric Rayleigh-Darcy number, the Lewis number, the nanoparticle Rayleigh-Darcy number or the modified diffusivity ratio .On the contrary , it can be delayed when we increase the Taylor-Darcy number or the porosity of the medium .