Marginal stability of impulsively initiated Couette flow and spin-decay

DOI10.1063/1.863751zbMath0517.76052OpenAlexW2151194587MaRDI QIDQ3666484

G. Paul Neitzel

Publication date: 1982

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863751

zbMATH Keywords

rotationEuler-Lagrange equationsinfinitely long circular cylindermarginal stabilityenergy theorycircular Couette flowlower bounds on onset times for instabilityouter boundary impulsively brought to restpair of infinitely long concentric cylindersspin decaystrong stability assumptionunsteady swirl flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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