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Motion in the atmosphere or mantle convection are two among phenomena of natural convection induced by internal heat sources. They bifurcate from the conduction state as a result of its loss of stability. In spite of their importance, due…
This work investigates the two-dimensional thermal behavior of a bilayer medium subject to both internal and external heat sources. The model incorporates diffusion, advection, and temperature-dependent volumetric heat generation or…
This article presents a theoretical analysis of a one-dimensional heat transfer problem in two layers involving diffusion, advection, internal heat generation or loss linearly dependent on temperature in each layer, and heat generation due…
Two Galerkin methods are applied to a problem of convection with uniform internal heat source are given. With each method analytical results are obtained and discussed. They concern the parameter representing the heating rate. Numerical…
The onset of convection in a horizontal layer of fluid heated from below in the presence of a gravity field varying across the layer is investigated. The eigenvalue problem governing the linear stability of the mechanical equilibria of the…
In this work, a thermal energy transfer problem in a one-dimensional multilayer body is theoretically analyzed, considering diffusion, advection, internal heat generation or loss linearly dependent on temperature in each layer, as well as…
We consider the heat equation with spatially variable thermal conductivity and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Using the Method of Fokas or Unified Transform Method, we derive solution representations as the limit of solutions of…
We demonstrate an application of the spectral method as a numerical approximation for solving Hyperbolic PDEs. In this method a finite basis is used for approximating the solutions. In particular, we demonstrate a set of such solutions for…
The topic of these notes could be easily expanded into a full one-semester course. Nevertheless, we shall try to give some flavour along with theoretical bases of spectral and pseudo-spectral methods. The main focus is made on Fourier-type…
The Legendre-based ultraspherical spectral method for ordinary differential equations is combined with a formula for the convolution of two Legendre series to produce a new technique for solving linear Fredholm and Volterra…
A theoretical study is presented in this paper to investigate the conjugate heat transfer across a vertical finite wall separating two forced and free convection flows at different temperatures. The heat conduction in the wall is in the…
Convection of an internally heated fluid, confined between top and bottom plates of equal temperature, is studied by direct numerical simulation in two and three dimensions. The unstably stratified upper region drives convection that…
Two-dimensional direct numerical simulations are conducted for convection sustained by uniform internal heating in a horizontal fluid layer. Top and bottom boundary temperatures are fixed and equal. Prandtl numbers range from 0.01 to 100,…
This work is devoted to the theoretical study of the stability of two superposed horizontal liquid layers bounded by two solid planes and subjected to a horizontal temperature gradient. The liquids are supposed to be immiscible with a…
The linear eigenvalue problem governing the stability of the mechanical equilibrium of the fluid in a electrohydrodynamic (EHD) convection problem is investigated. The analytical study is one of bifurcation. This allows us to regain the…
This article proposes spectral numerical methods to solve the time evolution of convection problems with viscosity strongly depending on temperature at infinite Prandtl number. Although we verify the proposed techniques just for viscosities…
A two-parameter singularly perturbed problem with discontinuous source and convection coefficient is considered in one dimension. Both convection coefficient and source term are discontinuous at a point in the domain. The presence of…
In this paper, we consider the Fourier spectral method for numerically solving the 2D convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. The semi-discrete and fully discrete schemes are established. Moreover, the existence, uniqueness and the optimal error…
We study the homogenization of a steady diffusion equation in a highly heterogeneous medium made of two subregions separated by a periodic barrier through which the flow is proportional to the jump of the temperature by a layer conductance…
This report summarises the results for the numerical simulation of thermocapillary convection in a two-fluid system with a deformable interface. An explicit technique with 3rd order Runge-Kutta method in time, 2nd order ENO for the…