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The stability of stationary waves in a wavy-walled channel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

John Philip Mchugh
John Philip Mchugh
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824-3591, USA
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Abstract

Experiments by Binnie showed that unsteady waves were produced by flow through a channel with symmetric, wavy sidewalls, with waves propagating both upstream and downstream. However, the first-order solution to this problem that was obtained by Yih is a set of steady waves. The steady solution is shown to be unstable to a pair of infinitesimal disturbance waves which satisfy the resonance conditions of Phillips. For the Froude-number range used by Binnie, a pair of disturbances has been found such that one wave propagates upstream, one propagates downstream, and the amplitudes have an exponential growth. The Froude numbers outside the range of Binnie are also shown to be unstable. The steady waves produced by flow through an antisymmetric channel are shown to be unstable in the same manner.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 189 , April 1988 , pp. 491 - 508
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© 1988 Cambridge University Press

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