Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 146, 291-300 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00187-6

Thermal convection in a rotating binary viscoelastic liquid mixture

¹ Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Casilla 4059, Valparaíso, Chile
² Departamento de Física y Matemática Aplicada, Universidad de Navarra, 31080 Pamplona, Spain

Corresponding author: jbragard@fisica.unav.es

Abstract

In this work we report theoretical and numerical results on convection in a viscoelastic binary mixture under rotation. In particular, we focus in the Maxwelian case of viscoelastic fluid. We obtain explicit expressions for the convective thresholds in terms of the mixture parameters of the system in the case of idealized boundary conditions. We also calculate numerically the convective thresholds for the case of realistic rigid–rigid boundary conditions.