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University of Pennsylvania Scholarly Commons Department of Mechanical Engineering Applied Departmental Papers (MEAM) Mechanics J uly 2006 Limitations of Linear Control of Thermal Convection in a Porous Medium Hui Zhao University of P ennsylvania Haim H. Bau University of P ennsylvania, bau@ Follow this and additional works at : /meam_papers Recommended Citation Zhao, Hui and Bau, Haim H., imitations of inear Control of Thermal Convection in a Porous Medium (2006). Departmental Pap ers (MEAM). Paper 76. /meam_papers/76 Postprint version. Published in Phy sics of Fluids, Volume 18, Issue 7, Article 074109, July 2006, 12 pages. Publisher UR : http://dx ./10.1063/1.2221354 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. /meam_papers/76 For more information, please contact repository@pobox .. Limitations of Linear Control of Thermal Convection in a Porous Medium Abstract The ability of linear controllers to stabilize the conduction (no-motion) state of a saturated porous layer heated from below and cooled from above is studied theoretically. Proportional, suboptimal robust(H∝) and linear quadratic Gaussian (H2) controllers are considered. The proportional controller increases the critical Rayleigh number for the onset of convection by as much as a factor of 2. Both the H2 and H∝ controllers stabilize the linearized system at all R ayleigh numbers. Although all these controllers successfully render negative the real part of the linearized system’s eigenvalues, the linear operator of the controlled system is non- normal and disturbances undergo substantial growth prior to their eventual, asymptot