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Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences
June 25-27, 2008
University of Genoa, Italy
Genoa, Italy

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General Organizer and Chair: Seenith Sivasundaram, USA; Local organizer and Chair: Marcello Sanguineti, Italy

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On the stability of viscous flows in curved channels
by
Ioana Dragomirescu
University "Politehnica" of Timisoara, Romania
Coauthors: Adelina Georgescu

The existence of a large variety of patterns in the Taylor-Dean flow imposed theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations of this motion. An analytical and numerical study using spectral methods based on Legendre polynomials is presented here for a few such examples. In each case the critical Taylor number at which instability occurs is obtained, all numerical results are compared with those existing in the literature, proving to be similar.

Date received: March 11, 2008

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