Abstract: | In the present paper, a study is made of the stability of plane-parallel flow induced by a transverse temperature difference between the boundaries of a layer and a longitudinal pressure gradient. This problem was solved earlier by the author 3] in a purely hydrodynamic formulation without allowance for thermal factors; the results then obtained correspond to the limiting case of small Prandtl numbers. In the paper, a numerical solution to the problem with the complete formulation is given.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 3–9, May–June, 1982.I thank G. Z. Gershuni for supervising the work, and also M. A. Gol'dshtik and V. N. Shtern for a helpful discussion. |