Nonlinear equilibration of two-dimensional optimal perturbations in viscous shear flow

DOI10.1063/1.868208MaRDI QIDQ4841889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kathryn M. Butler, Brian F. Farrell

Publication date 22 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868208

zbMATH Keywords

Couette flowfinite difference methodFourier spectral methodmaximum energy growthNavier-Stokes equationsOrr-Sommerfeld equationperiodicityPoiseuille flowquasisteady finite amplitude structuressubcritical coherent structuresviscous shear flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30)

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