Variational necessary and sufficient stability conditions for inviscid shear flow

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2014.0322zbMATH Open1371.76073arXiv1402.0719OpenAlexW2161728489WikidataQ50998016 ScholiaQ50998016MaRDI QIDQ5362302FDOQ5362302

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Publication date: 29 September 2017

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A necessary and sufficient condition for linear stability of inviscid parallel shear flow is formulated by developing a novel variational principle, where the velocity profile is assumed to be monotonic and analytic. It is shown that unstable eigenvalues of Rayleigh's equation (which is a non-selfadjoint eigenvalue problem) can be associated with positive eigenvalues of a certain selfadjoint operator. The stability is therefore determined by maximizing a quadratic form, which is theoretically and numerically more tractable than directly solving Rayleigh's equation. This variational stability criterion is based on the understandings of Krein signature for continuous spectrum and is applicable to other stability problems of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0719

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K45) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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