Spectra of the Orr–Sommerfeld equation
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- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 20 (9) , 1404-1411
Abstract
It is shown that the continuous spectra of both the temporal and spatial eigenvalues of the Orr–Sommerfeld equation for a Blasius flow can be re-interpreted as discrete spectra of the heat-conduction and diffraction types, respectively. Most of the general properties of the discrete spectrum of the Orr–Sommerfeld equation discovered by Mack can be understood on the basis of a simple model equation.Keywords
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