Direct numerical simulation of transition to turbulence in Görtler flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112093000126zbMath0782.76050MaRDI QIDQ4033421

Wei Liu, J. Andrzej Domaradzki

Publication date: 16 May 1993

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

zbMATH Keywords

curvilinear coordinate systeminstabilitiesconcave wallpseudospectral spectral methodspanwise shear

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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Cites Work

• On spectral multigrid methods for the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations
• On the görtler instability of boundary layers
• The secondary instability in Goertler flow