International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 23 (2000), Issue 9, Pages 617-625
doi:10.1155/S0161171200002040
Low Reynolds number stability of MHD plane Poiseuille flow of an Oldroyd fluid
Department of Mathematics, University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104, West Bengal, India
Received 19 August 1998
Copyright © 2000 R. N. Ray et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The linear stability of plane Poiseuille flow at low Reynolds
number of a conducting Oldroyd fluid in the presence of a
transverse magnetic field has been investigated numerically.
Spectral tau method with expansions in Chebyshev polynomials is
used to solve the Orr-Sommerfeld equation. It is found that
viscoelastic parameters have destabilizing effect and magnetic
field has a stabilizing effect in the field of flow. But no
instabilities are found.