A new mechanism of small-scale transition in a plane mixing layer: core dynamics of spanwise vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112095003223zbMATH Open0856.76023MaRDI QIDQ4881448FDOQ4881448

Authors: Wade Schoppa, Fazle Hussain, Ralph W. Metcalfe 

Publication date: 23 February 1997

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

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zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicscore dynamics instabilitytemporal direct numerical simulationsvortex line topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

Cites Work

• Role of coherent structures in an isothermally reacting mixing layer
• Direct simulation of a self-similar turbulent mixing layer
• Polarized vorticity dynamics on a vortex column
• The evolution of a plane mixing layer with spanwise nonuniform forcing

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• Core instabilities and “bridging” in the first pairing of plane mixing layers
• Double-helical pairing in plane mixing layers
• On a turbulent mixing layer created downstream of a ``\(\Lambda \) notch simulating one wavelength of a Chevron nozzle
• Instability of streaks in wall turbulence with adverse pressure gradient
• Experimental study of the mixing transition in a gaseous axisymmetric jet
• Transient perturbation growth in time-dependent mixing layers
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