Hydromagnetic stability of plane Poiseuille flow of an Oldroyd fluid

Acta Mechanica - Tập 143 - Trang 155-164 - 2000
R. N. Ray1, A. Samad1, T. K. Chaudhury1
1Department of Mathematics the University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India

Tóm tắt

The linear stability of plane Poiseuille flow of a conducting Oldroyd liquid in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is studied. The fourth-order Orr-Sommerfeld equation governing the stability analysis in this case is solved numerically by a spectral method.

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