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

DOI10.1017/S0022112091003518MaRDI QIDQ3354166zbMATHFDO

Authors 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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• A mechanism for instability of plane Couette flow and of Poiseuille flow in a pipe
• The long-wave instability of a defect in a uniform parallel shear
• The stability of free boundary layers between two uniform streams
• 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

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• Centrifugal instability of Couette flow over a wavy wall
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• Wall-transpiration-induced instabilities in plane Couette flow
• Extension to nonlinear stability theory of the circular Couette flow

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