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October  2007, 8(3): 613-622. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2007.8.613

Effects of buoyancy on the lower branch modes on a Blasius boundary layer

Eunice Mureithi 1,

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Mathematics Department, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa

Received  August 2006 Revised  January 2007 Published  July 2007

The effect of thermal buoyancy on the stability properties of lower branch Tollmein–Schlichting waves are investigated. At moderate values of thermal buoyancy the standard triple deck structure, which describes the evolution of such short wavelength instabilities in a buoyant boundary layer, is unaltered. The leading order eigenrelation is now a function of thermal buoyancy and from it we can derive the new dominant length-and time–scales for the instability in the case when the boundary layer is strongly buoyant. These new scales demonstrate that, in the case of strong wall cooling the lower branch structure is identical to the upper branch structure, thus suggesting that the curve of neutral stability may become closed at some large value of a Reynolds number. In the alternate limit of strong wall heating the evolution of a fixed frequency disturbance is governed by the linearized interactive boundary-layer equations; in this case wave–like disturbances cannot be described by any form of the quasi–parallel approximation theory.
Keywords: Lower branch; thermal buoyancy; Tollmein-Schlichting waves; eigenrelation..
Mathematics Subject Classification: 76E0.
Citation: Eunice Mureithi. Effects of buoyancy on the lower branch modes on a Blasius boundary layer. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2007, 8 (3) : 613-622. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2007.8.613
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