Equilibrium and travelling-wave solutions of plane Couette flow

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DOI10.1017/S0022112009990863zbMATH Open1183.76688arXiv0808.3375MaRDI QIDQ3550397FDOQ3550397


Authors: John Gibson, J. Halcrow, Predrag Cvitanović Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 March 2010

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

Abstract: We present ten new equilibrium solutions to plane Couette flow in small periodic cells at low Reynolds number (Re) and two new traveling-wave solutions. The solutions are continued under changes of Re and spanwise period. We provide a partial classification of the isotropy groups of plane Couette flow and show which kinds of solutions are allowed by each isotropy group. We find two complementary visualizations particularly revealing. Suitably chosen sections of their 3D-physical space velocity fields are helpful in developing physical intuition about coherent structures observed in low Re turbulence. Projections of these solutions and their unstable manifolds from their infinite-dimensional state space onto suitably chosen 2- or 3-dimensional subspaces reveal their interrelations and the role they play in organizing turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3375




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