Nonlinear instability of viscous plane Couette flow Part 1. Analytical approach to a necessary condition

DOI10.1017/S0022112091003518zbMath0729.76039MaRDI QIDQ3354166

Jean-Paul Zahn, Béreng`ere Dubrulle

Publication date: 1991

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

zbMATH Keywords

dispersion relationmarginal stabilityfinite-amplitude defecttwo-dimensional analytical stability analysisviscous, unbounded plane Couette flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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Kinetic wave turbulence ⋮ Transient growth and minimal defects: Two possible initial paths of transition to turbulence in plane shear flows ⋮ Centrifugal instability of Couette flow over a wavy wall

Cites Work

• The stability of free boundary layers between two uniform streams
• The long-wave instability of a defect in a uniform parallel shear
• Transition to turbulence in plane Poiseuille and plane Couette flow
• Uniform Asymptotic Approximations to the Solutions of the Orr-Sommerfeld Equation. Part 1. Plane Couette Flow
• A mechanism for instability of plane Couette flow and of Poiseuille flow in a pipe

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