The aim of the present study is to examine the steady flow of an incompressible conducting viscous fluid in convergent-divergent channels under the effect of an external homogeneous magnetic field. The non-dimensional governing equation for the considered flow field is solved in a power series to examine the instability of the problem using Hermite-Pade ́ approximation technique computed numeri...

A two-dimensional numerical study of flow across rows of identical square cylinders arranged in staggered fashion is carried out. This study will unreveal complex flow physics depending upon the Reynolds number (Re) and gap spacing (g) between the cylinders. The combined effect of Reynolds number and gap spacing on the flow physics around staggered rows of cylinders are numerically studied for ...

It has hitherto been widely considered that a mixing layer is unstable at all Reynolds numbers. However this is untenable from energy considerations, which demand that there must exist a non-zero Reynolds number below which disturbances cannot extract energy from the mean flow. It is shown here that a linear stability analysis of similarity solutions of the plane mixing layer, including the eff...