Application of the reduced Navier-Stokes methodology to flow stability of Falkner-Skan class flows

DOI10.1016/S0045-7930(98)00029-2zbMath0968.76019OpenAlexW1998938415MaRDI QIDQ1972919

P. E. Morgan, Prem K. Khosla, Stanley G. Rubin

Publication date: 26 April 2000

Published in: Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0045-7930(98)00029-2

zbMATH Keywords

direct numerical simulationneutral stability curvesaxial diffusionFalkner-Skan flowsdiffusion in normal momentum equationlinear flow stabilityreduced Navier-Stokes methodologyreduced Orr-Sommerfeld equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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