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Transport in Porous Media, Vol.48, No.3, 353-372, 2002
Weak nonlinear analysis of moderate Stefan number oscillatory convection in rotating mushy layers
We consider the solidification of a binary alloy in a mushy layer subject to Coriolis effects. A near-eutectic approximation and large far-field temperature is employed in order to study the dynamics of the mushy layer with a Stefan number of unit order of magnitude. The weak nonlinear theory is used to investigate analytically the Coriolis effect in a rotating mushy layer for a new moderate time scale proposed by the author. It is found that increasing the Taylor number favoured the forward bifurcation.
Keywords:rotating flows;mushy layers;free convection;Taylor number;solidification;oscillatory convection