The stability of plane two-layer Couette and Poiseuille flows, where the lower layer consists of a Grad-model fluid and the upper layer is a viscous Newtonian fluid, is investigated. The disturbances are assumed to be of the long-wave type, and the analysis involves expansion in wave numbers and is limited by two approximations. Numerical calculations are made for some values of the parameters. The calculations indicate that the rotational energy of the fluid in the lower layer has a destabilizing effect on the flow.

S. M. Aleinikov

Papers

Effect of fluid microstructure on stability of plane two-layer flows