Convection in a porous medium with velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions

The onset of convection in a rarefield gas saturating a horizontal layer of a porous medium has been investigated using both Darcy and Brinkman models. It is assumed that due to rarefaction both velocity slip and temperature jump exist at the boundaries. The results show that (i) when the degree of rarefaction increases the critical Rayleigh number as well as the critical wave number for the onset of convection increases, (ii) stabilizing effect of temperature jump is more than that of velocity slip, (iii) Darcy model is seen to be the most stable one when compared to Brinkman model or the pure gaseous layer (i.e. in the absence of porous medium).