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