Pattern fluctuations in transitional plane Couette flow

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0126-XMaRDI QIDQ628684zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joran Rolland, Paul Manneville

Publication date 14 March 2011

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2513

zbMATH Keywords

fluid dynamicsjump processpattern formationplane Couette flowtransition to turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Transition to turbulence (76F06) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: In wide enough systems, plane Couette flow, the flow established between two parallel plates translating in opposite directions, displays alternatively turbulent and laminar oblique bands in a given range of Reynolds numbers R. We show that in periodic domains that contain a few bands, for given values of R and size, the orientation and the wavelength of this pattern can fluctuate in time. A procedure is defined to detect well-oriented episodes and to determine the statistics of their lifetimes. The latter turn out to be distributed according to exponentially decreasing laws. This statistics is interpreted in terms of an activated process described by a Langevin equation whose deterministic part is a standard Landau model for two interacting complex amplitudes whereas the noise arises from the turbulent background.

Review text

This paper reports results from numerical simulations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in case of plane Couette flow. A range of Reynolds numbers is studied where the transition to turbulence happens by generating spatio-temporal patterns in form of oblique bands. These bands alternate between turbulent and laminar flows, and the orientation and the wavelength of this pattern fluctuates in time. This dynamics is quantified by a procedure that detects well-oriented episodes by determining the statistics of their lifetimes. The measured statistics is modeled by transforming a noisy Ginzburg-Landau model into a Landau-Langevin equation. This equation is discussed both analytically, and lifetimes are computed by solving it numerically.

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