Compact course on hydrodynamic stability
by
Kirti Chandra Sahu
Department of Chemical Engineering
IIT Hyderabad
Date: 11-12 October, 2013
Schedule
- 11 October (Friday): 11am-12:30pm and 2pm-3:30pm
- 12 October (Saturday): 9:30am-11:00am and 11:30am-1:00pm
Topics
- The concept of small-disturbance theory
- Outline of typical linear stability theory
- Linearized stability of parallel viscous flows
- Some typical base state (mean flow): Couette, Poiseuille and Pipe flows, Blassius boundary layer profile
- Numerical method to solve the linear stability equation for channel flow (The code will be given)
- Inviscid approach