The Effect of Heating and Cooling on the Stability of the Boundary-Layer Flow of a Liquid over a Curved Surface

In this paper, we are concerned with the linear stability of zero pressure-gradient laminar boundary-layer flow over compliant walls which are composed of one or more layers of isotropic viscoelastic materials and backed by a rigid base. Wall compliance supports a whole host of new instabilities in addition to the Tollmien-Schlichting mode of instability, which originally exists even when the wall is rigid. The perturbations in the flow and the compliant wall are coupled at their common interface through the kinematic condition of velocity continuity and the dynamical condition of stress continuity. The disturbance modes in the flow are governed by the Orr-Sommerfeld equation using the locally-parallel flow assumption, and the response of the compliant layers is described using a displacement-stress formalism. The theoretical treatment provides a unified formulation of the stability eigenvalue problem that is applicable to compliant walls having any finite number of uniform layers; inclusive of viscous sublayer. The formulation is well suited to systematic numerical implementation. Results for single- and multi-layer walls are presented. Analyses of the eigenfunctions give an insight into some of the physics involved. Multi-layering gives a measure of control over the stability characteristics of compliant walls not available to single-layer walls. The present study provides evidence which suggests that substantial suppression of disturbance growth may be possible for suitably tailored compliant walls.

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Boundary Layer Flow over a Curved Surface Imbedded in Porous Medium

Communications in Theoretical Physics ◽

10.1088/0253-6102/71/3/344 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 71 (3) ◽

pp. 344 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Shafiq Ahmad ◽

S. Nadeem ◽

Noor Muhammad

Keyword(s):

Boundary Layer ◽

Porous Medium ◽

Boundary Layer Flow ◽

Curved Surface ◽

Layer Flow

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The centrifugal instability of the boundary-layer flow over slender rotating cones

Journal of Fluid Mechanics ◽

10.1017/jfm.2014.417 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 755 ◽

pp. 274-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Z. Hussain ◽

S. J. Garrett ◽

S. O. Stephen

Keyword(s):

Boundary Layer ◽

Boundary Layer Flow ◽

Rotating Disk ◽

Alternative Formulation ◽

Centrifugal Instability ◽

Half Angle ◽

Layer Flow ◽

The Stability ◽

Experimental And Theoretical Studies ◽

Numerical Approaches

AbstractExisting experimental and theoretical studies are discussed which lead to the clear hypothesis of a hitherto unidentified convective instability mode that dominates within the boundary-layer flow over slender rotating cones. The mode manifests as Görtler-type counter-rotating spiral vortices, indicative of a centrifugal mechanism. Although a formulation consistent with the classic rotating-disk problem has been successful in predicting the stability characteristics over broad cones, it is unable to identify such a centrifugal mode as the half-angle is reduced. An alternative formulation is developed and the governing equations solved using both short-wavelength asymptotic and numerical approaches to independently identify the centrifugal mode.

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