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Singularities of Rayleigh equation

2024/08/02 by Dongfen Bian, Bian, Dongfen, Emmanuel Grenier +1
Mathematics · #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Numerical methods for differential equations

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.00977

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Abstract

The Rayleigh equation, which is the linearized Euler equations near a shear flow in vorticity formulation, is a key ingredient in the study of the long time behavior of solutions of linearized Euler equations, in the study of the linear stability of shear flows for Navier-Stokes equations and in particular in the construction of the so called Tollmien-Schlichting waves. It is also a key ingredient in the study of vorticity depletion. In this article we locally describe the solutions of Rayleigh equation near critical points of any order of degeneracy, and link their values on the boundary with their behaviors at infinity.

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