The background flow method. Part 1. Constructive approach to bounds on energy dissipation

DOI10.1017/S0022112098001165zbMath0923.76058MaRDI QIDQ4219875

Siegfried Grossmann, Martin Holthaus, Rolf Nicodemus

Publication date: 14 February 1999

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

zbMATH Keywords

boundary value problem; plane Couette flow; spectral constraint; bifurcation of minimizing wavenumber; Doering-Constantin variational principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76M30: Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

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