A Non-Self-Adjoint Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem Describing a Fluid-Solid Interaction. Part II: Analysis of Convergence

David Bourne, Howard Elman, and John Osborn

Contact the author: Please use for correspondence this email.
Submission date: 03. Sep. 2008
Pages: 24
published in: Communications on pure and applied analysis, 8 (2009) 1, p. 143-160 
DOI number (of the published article): 10.3934/cpaa.2009.8.143
Bibtex
MSC-Numbers: 65N25, 74F10, 76D05, 74D10, 65N12
Keywords and phrases: Non-self-adjoint quadratic eigenvalue problem, fluid-solid interaction, viscous fluid, nonlinear viscoeastic shell
Download full preprint: PDF (235 kB)

Abstract:
This paper is the second part of a two-part paper treating a non-self-adjoint quadratic eigenvalue problem for the linear stability of solutions to the Taylor-Couette problem for flow of a viscous liquid in a deformable cylinder, with the cylinder modelled as a membrane. The first part formulated the problem, analyzed it, and presented computations. In this second part, we first give a weak formulation of the problem, carefully contrived so that the pressure boundary terms are eliminated from the equations. We prove that the bilinear forms appearing in the weak formulation satisfy continuous inf-sup conditions. We combine a Fourier expansion with the finite element method to produce a discrete problem satisfying discrete inf-sup conditions. Finally, the Galerkin approximation theory for polynomial eigenvalue problems is applied to prove convergence of the spectrum.