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A weakly nonlinear stability analysis of wave propagation in two superposed dielectric fluids streaming through porous media in the presence of vertical electric field producing surface charges is investigated in three dimensions. The method of multiple scales is used to obtain a dispersion relation for the linear problem and a nonlinear Klein–Gordon equation with complex coefficients describing the behavior of the perturbed system at the critical point of the neutral curve. In the linear case, we found that the system is always unstable for all physical quantities (including the dimension l), even in the presence of electric fields and porous medium, in the nonlinear case, novel stability conditions are obtained, and the effects of various parameters on the stability of the system are discussed numerically in detail.
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El-Sayed, M.F., Moatimid, G.M. & Metwaly, T.M.N. Nonlinear Electrohydrodynamic Stability of Two Superposed Streaming Finite Dielectric Fluids in Porous Medium with Interfacial Surface Charges. Transp Porous Med 86, 559–578 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-010-9639-z
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