Absolute and convective instabilities in an inviscid compressible mixing layer

DOI10.1002/ASNA.200710785zbMATH Open1184.76670arXiv0705.3381OpenAlexW3103961712MaRDI QIDQ5435481FDOQ5435481

Authors: Philippe Caillol, Michael S. Ruderman 

Publication date: 14 January 2008

Published in: Astronomische Nachrichten: A Journal on all Fields of Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the stability of a compressible shear flow separating two streams of different speeds and temperatures. The velocity and temperature profiles in this mixing layer are hyperbolic tangents. The normal mode analysis of the flow stability reduces to an eigenvalue problem for the pressure perturbation. We briefly describe the numerical method that we used to solve this problem. Then, we introduce the notions of the absolute and convective instabilities and examine the effects of Mach number, and the velocity and temperature ratios of each stream on the transition between convective and absolute instabilities. Finally, we discuss the implication of the results presented in this paper for the heliopause stability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3381

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalue problemnormal mode analysispressure perturbationheliopause stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15)

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