The continuous spectrum of the Orr-Sommerfeld equation. Part 2. Eigenfunction expansions

DOI10.1017/S0022112081002991zbMath0467.76051OpenAlexW1998963216MaRDI QIDQ3920877

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081002991

zbMATH Keywords

completeness initial-value problems Orr-Sommerfeld equation spatial stability temporal stability biorthogonality conditions for wavelike disturbances discrete and continuum eigenfunctions disturbances vorticity expansion of two dimensional solutions linearized streamfunction equation shear flows in a semi-infinite region

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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