Abstract
The onset of convection in a horizontal layer of fluid heated from below in the presence of a gravity field varying across the layer is numerically investigated. The eigenvalue problem governing the linear stability of the mechanical equilibria of the fluid, in the case of free boundaries, is a sixth order differential equation with Dirichlet and hinged boundary conditions. It is transformed into a system of second order differential equations supplied only with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Then it is solved using two distinct classes of spectral methods namely, weighted residuals (Galerkin type) methods and a collocation (pseudospectral) method, both based on Chebyshev polynomials. The methods provide a fairly accurate approximation of the lower part of the spectrum without any scale resolution restriction. The Viola’s eigenvalue problem is considered as a benchmark one. A conjecture is stated for the first eigenvalue of this problem.
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Călin-Ioan Gheorghiu
(Tiberiu Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis, Romanian Academy)
Florica-Ioana Dragomirescu
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C.I. Gheorghiu, F.-I. Dragomirescu, Spectral methods in linear stability. Applications in thermal convection with variable gravity field, Appl. Numer. Math., 59 (2009) 1290-1302
doi: 10.1016/j.apnum.2008.07.004
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