Dynamical properties of forced shear layers in an annular geometry

DOI10.1017/S0022112099006837zbMath1003.76092MaRDI QIDQ4489294

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Publication date: 23 January 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099006837

zbMATH Keywords

linear stability analysis; spectral method; Landau equation; critical Reynolds number; rotating fluid; spin-down; spin-up; annular geometry; Orr-Sommerfeld operator; banded operators; forced shear layers; plane circular Couette flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76D05: Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids

76M45: Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76M22: Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76E05: Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability

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