Improved upper bound on the energy dissipation rate in plane Couette flow: the full solution to Busse's problem and the Constantin–Doering–Hopf problem with one-dimensional background field

DOI10.1017/S0022112002003361zbMath1063.76623OpenAlexW1992124920MaRDI QIDQ4655758

S. C. Plasting, R. R. Kerswell

Publication date: 8 March 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112002003361

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

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