Exact coherent states and connections to turbulent dynamics in minimal channel flow

DOI10.1017/JFM.2015.554zbMATH Open1381.76097arXiv1509.04748OpenAlexW3099625183MaRDI QIDQ2807148FDOQ2807148

Jae Sung Park, Michael D. Graham

Publication date: 19 May 2016

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

Abstract: Several new families of nonlinear three-dimensional travelling wave solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation, also known as exact coherent states, are computed for Newtonian plane Poiseuille flow. The symmetries and streak/vortex structures are reported and their possible connections to critical layer dynamics examined. While some of the solutions clearly display fluctuations that are localized around the critical layer (the surface on which the streamwise velocity matches the wave speed of the solution), for others this connection is not as clear. Dynamical trajectories along unstable directions of the solutions are computed. Over certain ranges of Reynolds number, two solution families are shown to lie on the basin boundary between laminar and turbulent flow. Direct comparison of nonlinear travelling wave solutions to turbulent flow in the same channel is presented. The state-space dynamics of the turbulent flow are organized around one of the newly-identified travelling wave families, and in particular the lower branch solutions of this family are closely approached during transient excursions away from the dominant behaviour. These observations provide a firm dynamical-systems foundation for prior observations that minimal channel turbulence displays time intervals of "active" turbulence punctuated by brief periods of "hibernation" (see e.g. Xi, L. and Graham, M. D., Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 218301 (2010)). The hibernating intervals are approaches to lower branch nonlinear travelling waves. Representing these solutions on a Prandtl-von Karman plot illustrates how their bulk flow properties are related to those of Newtonian turbulence as well as the universal asymptotic state called maximum drag reduction (MDR) found in viscoelastic turbulent flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04748

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear dynamical systemsnonlinear instabilitytransition to turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Transition to turbulence (76F06) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20)

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