Simple asymptotics for the temporal spectrum of an Orr-Sommerfeld problem

DOI10.1016/S0893-9659(99)00185-8zbMath0991.76021MaRDI QIDQ1588743

W. H. Reid, B. S. Ng

Publication date: 4 December 2000

Published in: Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalue problemasymptotic approximationhydrodynamic instabilityOrr-Sommerfeld equationthird-order ordinary differential equationgeneralized Airy functionseven modesinviscid solutionnumerical iterationvanishing wave numbervisous solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05) Numerical approximation of eigenvalues and of other parts of the spectrum of ordinary differential operators (34L16)

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• A numerical study of the temporal eigenvalue spectrum of the Blasius boundary layer
• Accurate solution of the Orr–Sommerfeld stability equation
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