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Onset of absolutely unstable behaviour in the Stokes layer: a Floquet approach to the Briggs method

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Alexander Pretty Open the ORCID record for Alexander Pretty [Opens in a new window] ,
Christopher Davies Open the ORCID record for Christopher Davies [Opens in a new window]  and
Christian Thomas Open the ORCID record for Christian Thomas [Opens in a new window]
Alexander Pretty
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 4AG, UK
Christopher Davies
Affiliation:
School of Engineering, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Christian Thomas*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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†Email address for correspondence: christian.thomas@mq.edu.au
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Abstract

For steady flows, the Briggs (Electron-Stream Interaction with Plasmas. MIT Press, 1964) method is a well-established approach for classifying disturbances as either convectively or absolutely unstable. Here, the framework of the Briggs method is adapted to temporally periodic flows, with Floquet theory utilised to account for the time periodicity of the Stokes layer. As a consequence of the antiperiodicity of the flow, symmetry constraints are established that are used to describe the pointwise evolution of the disturbance, with the behaviour governed by harmonic and subharmonics modes. On coupling the symmetry constraints with a cusp-map analysis, multiple harmonic and subharmonic cusps are found for each Reynolds number of the flow. Therefore, linear disturbances experience subharmonic growth about fixed spatial locations. Moreover, the growth rate associated with the pointwise development of the disturbance matches the growth rate of the disturbance maximum. Thus, the onset of the Floquet instability (Blennerhassett & Bassom, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 464, 2002, pp. 393–410) coincides with the onset of absolutely unstable behaviour. Stability characteristics are consistent with the spatio-temporal disturbance development of the family-tree structure that has hitherto only been observed numerically via simulations of the linearised Navier–Stokes equations (Thomas et al., J. Fluid Mech., vol. 752, 2014, pp. 543–571; Ramage et al., Phys. Rev. Fluids, vol. 5, 2020, 103901).

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Boundary Layers: Boundary layer stability Instability: Absolute/convective instability
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 928 , 10 December 2021 , A23
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