Many engineering applications involve porous media and rely on non-Newtonian working fluids. In this paper, the seepage flow of a non-Newtonian fluid saturating a vertical porous layer is studied. The buoyant flow is thermally driven by the boundaries of the porous layer, which are permeable surfaces kept at different temperatures. In order to model the seepage flow of both shear-Thinning (pseudoplastic) and shear-Thickening (dilatant) fluids, reference is made to the Ostwald-de Waele rheological model implemented via the power-law extended form of Darcy's law. The basic stationary flow is parallel to the vertical axis and shows a single-cell pattern, where the cell has infinite height and can display a core-region of enhanced/inhibited flow according to the fluid's rheological behavior. By applying small perturbations, a linear stability analysis of the basic flow is performed to determine the onset conditions for a multicellular pattern. This analysis is carried out numerically by employing the shooting method. The neutral stability curves and the values of the critical Rayleigh number are computed for different pseudoplastic and dilatant fluids. The behavior of a Newtonian fluid is also obtained as a limiting case.

Lazzari S., Celli M., Vayssiere Brandão P., Barletta A. (2023). Buoyancy-Induced Instability of a Power-Law Fluid Saturating a Vertical Porous Slab. ASME JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, 145(4), 1-8 [10.1115/1.4055859].

Buoyancy-Induced Instability of a Power-Law Fluid Saturating a Vertical Porous Slab

Celli M.;Vayssiere Brandão P.;Barletta A.
2023

Abstract

Many engineering applications involve porous media and rely on non-Newtonian working fluids. In this paper, the seepage flow of a non-Newtonian fluid saturating a vertical porous layer is studied. The buoyant flow is thermally driven by the boundaries of the porous layer, which are permeable surfaces kept at different temperatures. In order to model the seepage flow of both shear-Thinning (pseudoplastic) and shear-Thickening (dilatant) fluids, reference is made to the Ostwald-de Waele rheological model implemented via the power-law extended form of Darcy's law. The basic stationary flow is parallel to the vertical axis and shows a single-cell pattern, where the cell has infinite height and can display a core-region of enhanced/inhibited flow according to the fluid's rheological behavior. By applying small perturbations, a linear stability analysis of the basic flow is performed to determine the onset conditions for a multicellular pattern. This analysis is carried out numerically by employing the shooting method. The neutral stability curves and the values of the critical Rayleigh number are computed for different pseudoplastic and dilatant fluids. The behavior of a Newtonian fluid is also obtained as a limiting case.
2023
Lazzari S., Celli M., Vayssiere Brandão P., Barletta A. (2023). Buoyancy-Induced Instability of a Power-Law Fluid Saturating a Vertical Porous Slab. ASME JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, 145(4), 1-8 [10.1115/1.4055859].
Lazzari S.; Celli M.; Vayssiere Brandão P.; Barletta A.
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