A spectral Galerkin method for the coupled Orr-Sommerfeld and induction equations for free-surface MHD

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2008.10.016zbMath1330.76055arXiv0802.2718OpenAlexW2036929218MaRDI QIDQ1005506

Paul F. Fischer, Robert Rosner, Dimitrios Giannakis

Publication date: 9 March 2009

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2718

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamic stabilityspectral Galerkin methodeigenvalue problemsOrr-Sommerfeld equationsfree-surface MHD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L60) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25)

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Uses Software

• LAPACK
• ARPACK
• Eigtool

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