Criteria of turbulent transition in parallel flows

DOI10.1142/S0217984910023815zbMATH Open1195.76149arXiv0906.0417OpenAlexW3100449591MaRDI QIDQ4929633FDOQ4929633

Authors: Hua-Shu Dou, Boo Cheong Khoo 

Publication date: 23 September 2010

Published in: Modern Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Based on the energy gradient method, criteria for turbulent transition are proposed for pressure driven flow and shear driven flow, respectively. For pressure driven flow, the necessary and sufficient condition for turbulent transition is the presence of the velocity inflection point in the averaged flow. For shear driven flow, the necessary and sufficient condition for turbulent transition is the existence of zero velocity gradient in the averaged flow profile. It is shown that turbulent transition can be effected via a singularity of the energy gradient function which may be associated with the chaotic attractor in dynamic system. The role of disturbance in the transition is also clarified in causing the energy gradient function to approach the singularity. Finally, it is interesting that turbulence can be controlled by modulating the distribution of the energy gradient function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0417

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zbMATH Keywords

singularitycriteriaenergy gradientturbulent transitionrole of disturbance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

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