The effect of an applied electric field on the stability of the interface between two thin viscous leaky dielectric fluid films in porous medium is analyzed in the long-wave limit. A systematic asymptotic expansion is employed to derive coupled nonlinear evolution equations of the interface and interfacial free charge distribution. The linearized stability of these equations is determined and the effects of various parameters are examined in detail. For perfect-perfect dielectrics, the various parameters affect only for small wavenumber values. For dielectrics, the various parameters affect only for small wavenumber values. For effect for small wavenumbers, and a stabilizing effect afterwards, and for high wavenumber values for the other physical parameters, new regions of stability or instability appear. For leaky-leaky dielectrics, the conductivity of upper fluid has a destabilizing effect for small or high wavenumbers, while it has a dual role on the stability of the system in a wavenumber range between them. The effects of all other physical parameters behave in the same manner as in the case of perfect-leaky dielectrics, except that in the later case, the stability or instability regions occur more faster than the corresponding case of leaky-leaky dielectrics.

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The stability of a thin layer of viscoelastic fluid flowing through a porous medium down a non-uniformly heated inclined plane with a constant temperature gradient along the plane is considered. The film flow system is influenced by gravity, mean surface tension, thermocapillary forces, viscoelastic forces, porosity, and permeability of porous medium. We seek a solution of the stability problem in a series in small wave numbers, and the obtained results, when the plane is heated in the downstream direction, show that the Marangoni, Galileo, Biot numbers, porosity, and permeability of the porous medium have dual roles in the stability of the flow system, while the viscoelastic parameter and angle of inclination have stabilizing effects, and the Prandtl number has a destabilizing effect. The effects of these physical parameters are also discussed in the case when the plane is cooled in the downstream direction, and we found that their effects are opposite to those of the previous case.

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