Stability bounds on turbulent Poiseuille flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112088000503zbMath0646.76076OpenAlexW2163501263MaRDI QIDQ3790846

Glenn R. Ierley, Willem Malkus

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112088000503

zbMATH Keywords

linear instabilityturbulent Poiseuille flowone-dimensional flowsOrr-Sommerfeld problemsneutral infinitesimal disturbancesneutrally stable Orr- Sommerfeld solutionsteady-state turbulent flowsunique mean properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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