Spectra of the Orr-Sommerfeld equation: The plane Poiseuille flow for the normal fluid revisited

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/16/306MaRDI QIDQ2736740zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. Kwang-Hua Chu

Publication date 11 September 2001

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/34/16/306

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalueshydrodynamic instabilityOrr-Sommerfeld equationplane Poiseuille flowpreconditioned complex matrix solverspectral Chebyshev methodspurious modesstrange spectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical approximation of eigenvalues and of other parts of the spectrum of ordinary differential operators (34L16) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22)

Review text

When solving the Orr-Sommerfeld equation (OSE) of hydrodynamic instability theory by numerical techniques, the occurrence of the so-called spurious modes is often observed. In the present paper, a spectral Chebyshev approach combined with a preconditioned complex matrix solver is used to solve the OSE, and the author reports (for plane Poiseuille flow) the occurrence of strange spectra which are so far not related to the spurious modes, and which have never been mentioned in the literature before. These strange spectra, being one pair of eigenvalues corresponding to the specific Reynolds number \(Re\) and the wavenumber \(a\), have almost the same real parts (phase speeds) but different imaginary parts (amplifying factors). The behavior of these strange spectra disappears as \(\text{Re} \to 400\). In the present paper, seven such pairs of eigenvalues are listed for Reynolds numbers ranging between 500 and 5750, and for wavenumbers ranging between 0.8 and 1.8.

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