The onset of instability in a hydromagnetic channel flow of Casson fluid: the accurate solutions

Ramesh B. Kudenatti and Noor-E-Misbah,

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2023, vol. 436, issue C

Abstract: We study the temporal stability of linear two-dimensional disturbances of plane Poiseuille flow of a Casson fluid in a rigid parallel channel under the influence of a uniform magnetic field. When the disturbance is taken in normal mode it transforms the perturbed equations to a fourth-order eigenvalue problem which is then solved by the spectral method. We first obtain sufficient conditions for the hydrodynamic stability in the channel by analyzing the nature of the growth rate and the Reynolds number. For the chosen set of parameters, the eigenspectra of the flow exhibit the familiar Y-shaped structure with three distinct modes depending on the phase speed approach. The eigenfunctions corresponding to the least stable and most unstable eigenmodes have the symmetric and antisymmetric modes. For a certain range of Casson parameter β and the magnetic number M, instability always appears on the wall mode for which the eigenfunction is antisymmetric about the channel center-line. The neutral stability curves that correspond to various values of β and M are found to be an extension of the continuation of the Tollmien-Schlichting instability that is noticed for a Newtonian channel flow. The regions of stability are enlarged for small β and large M.

Keywords: Hydrodynamic stability; Plane-Poiseuille flow; Casson fluid; Chebyshev collocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2022.127475

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