.... It is observed that increasing the viscosity parameter, Λ , and the magnetic number, M 1 , is to hasten the onset of ferroconvection, while the nonlinearity of fluid magnetization, M 3 , is found to have no influence on the stability of the system. The critical stability parameters are found to be the same...

...C. E. Nanjundappa; I. S. Shivakumara A variety of velocity and temperature boundary conditions on the onset of ferroconvection in an initially quiescent ferrofluid layer in the presence of a uniform magnetic field is investigated. The lower boundary of the ferrofluid layer is assumed to be rigid...