Streamwise vortices in shear flows: harbingers of transition and the skeleton of coherent structures

DOI10.1017/S0022112010002892zbMath1205.76085MaRDI QIDQ3075772

Spencer J. Sherwin, Philip Hall

Publication date: 17 February 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112010002892

zbMATH Keywords

control theory; transition to turbulence; nonlinear instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76D17: Viscous vortex flows

76F06: Transition to turbulence

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