TY - JOUR T1 - Magnetoconvection in a Soret Driven Binary Fluid Mixture Induced by Temperature Dependent Viscosity AU - Hafizah Zainal Abidin, Nurul AU - Fadzillah Mohd Mokhtar, Nor AU - Syahid Zuhri Suardi, Muhammad AU - Abdul Majid, Zanariah AU - Salwa Abd Ghani, Siti JO - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 494 EP - 500 PY - 2017 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-949x DO - jeasci.2017.494.500 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.494.500 KW - Binary fluid KW -vertical magnetic field KW -temperature dependent viscosity KW -soret effect KW -confined boundaries KW -critical Rayleigh AB - Thermosolutal Rayleigh-Benard convection in a binary fluid heated from the below is studied numerically. Soret effects are imposed to analyze the thermo-diffusion effects on the flow. We study the onset of convection in a horizontal binary fluid layer with the effect of temperature dependent viscosity together with vertical magnetic field. The confined boundaries of the binary fluid layer are considered to be free-free, rigid-free and rigid-rigid which described the lower and upper surfaces respectively. The Galerkin method is implemented through the numerical computations in order to observe the stability of the binary liquid mixture and the effect of magnetic field, temperature dependent viscosity and Soret effect to the critical Rayleigh number is also reported. ER -