Unification of variational principles for turbulent shear flows: The background method of Doering-Constantin and the mean-fluctuation formulation of Howard-Busse

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00104-3zbMath0958.76034WikidataQ127933710 ScholiaQ127933710MaRDI QIDQ1808400

R. R. Kerswell

Publication date: 6 December 1999

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsconvectionvariational formulationdual variational problemturbulent shear flowsbackground method of Doering-Constantinbounds on turbulent viscous dissipationBusse's upper bound problemmean-fluctuation formulation of Howard-Busse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

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