The background flow method. Part 1. Constructive approach to bounds on energy dissipation

DOI10.1017/S0022112098001165zbMath0923.76058OpenAlexW2148748489MaRDI QIDQ4219875

Siegfried Grossmann, Martin Holthaus, Rolf Nicodemus

Publication date: 14 February 1999

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098001165

zbMATH Keywords

boundary value problemplane Couette flowspectral constraintbifurcation of minimizing wavenumberDoering-Constantin variational principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

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