A. Mishra - General Department, IDS, Nirma University , Ahmedabad, Gujrat- ۳۸۲۴۸۱, India
M. Kumar - Department of Mathematics, MNNIT, Allahabad, U. P.- ۲۱۱۰۰۴, India

In this paper, we have analyzed the effect of time periodic temperature modulation on convective stability in anisotropic porous cavity. The cavity is heated from below and cooled from above. A weakly non-linear stability analysis is done to find Nusselt number governing the heat transport. The infinitely small disturbances are expanded in terms of power series of amplitude of modulation. Analytically the nonautonomous Ginzburg- landau amplitude equation is obtained for the stationary mode of convection. The effects of various parameters like Vadasz number, mechanical and thermal anisotropic parameters, amplitude of oscillations, frequency of modulation and aspect ratio of the cavity on heat transport is studied and plotted graphically. It is observed that the heat transport can also be controlled by suitably adjusting the external and internal parameters of the system.

Temperature modulation, Anisotropic porous cavity, Ginzburg, landau amplitude equation