Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-09-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
13 pages, 11 figures; submitted to Physical Review E
Scientific paper
Thermal convection in nanofluids is investigated by means of a continuum model for binary-fluid mixtures, with a thermal conductivity depending on the local concentration of colloidal particles. The applied temperature difference between the upper and the lower boundary leads via the Soret effect to a variation of the colloid concentration and therefore to a spatially varying heat conductivity. An increasing difference between the heat conductivity of the mixture near the colder and the warmer boundary results in a shift of the onset of convection to higher values of the Rayleigh number for positive values of the separation ratio psi>0 and to smaller values in the range psi<0. Beyond some critical difference of the thermal conductivity between the two boundaries, we find an oscillatory onset of convection not only for psi<0, but also within a finite range of psi>0. This range can be extended by increasing the difference in the thermal conductivity and it is bounded by two codimension-2 bifurcations.
Glässl Martin
Hilt Markus
Zimmermann Walter
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