Transient growth and minimal defects: Two possible initial paths of transition to turbulence in plane shear flows

DOI10.1063/1.1775194zbMATH Open1187.76046OpenAlexW2054572265MaRDI QIDQ3554635FDOQ3554635

D. Biau, Alessandro Bottaro

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1775194

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic stabilityCouette flowparabolic equationslaminar flowPoiseuille floweigenvalues and eigenfunctionsflow instabilitychannel flowflow simulationshear turbulencelaminar to turbulent transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Cites Work

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Cited In (9)

• Stability of the flow of a Bingham fluid in a channel: eigenvalue sensitivity, minimal defects and scaling laws of transition
• The effect of stable thermal stratification on shear flow stability
• Sensitivity analysis of a streamwise corner flow
• From three-dimensional to quasi-two-dimensional: transient growth in magnetohydrodynamic duct flows
• Optimal disturbances in suction boundary layers
• Delaying transition to turbulence in channel flow: revisiting the stability of shear-thinning fluids
• Transition to turbulence in duct flow
• The onset of transient turbulence in minimal plane Couette flow
• Linear stability of channel entrance flow

Uses Software

• Differentiation Matrix Suite

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