The stability of viscous flow between rotating cylinders. II

In this paper a new method is described for solving the characteristic value problem underlying the theory of the stability of viscous flow between rotating cylinders. The method depends on solving a simpler adjoint system of equations. It is shown that the present method is superior to the one described in an earlier paper (Chandrasekhar 1958). Numerical results are given for the case when the ratio of the radii of the two cylinders is one-half.