An optimal path to transition in a duct

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2008.0191MaRDI QIDQ5504081zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors D. Biau, Alessandro Bottaro

Publication date 21 January 2009

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0082

zbMATH Keywords

duct flowminimal defectsoptimal perturbationstransition to turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transition to turbulence (76F06)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the transition of the laminar flow in a duct of square cross-section. Like in the similar case of the pipe flow, the motion is linearly stable for all Reynolds numbers, rendering this flow a suitable candidate for a study of the 'bypass' path to turbulence. It has already been shown citep{Biau_JFM_2008} that the classical linear optimal perturbation problem, yielding optimal disturbances in the form of longitudinal vortices, fails to provide an 'optimal' path to turbulence, i.e. optimal perturbations do not elicit a significant nonlinear response from the flow. Previous simulations have also indicated that a pair of travelling waves generates immediately, by nonlinear quadratic interactions, an unstable mean flow distortion, responsible for rapid breakdown. By the use of functions quantifying the sensitivity of the motion to deviations in the base flow, the 'optimal' travelling wave associated to its specific defect is found by a variational approach. This optimal solution is then integrated in time and shown to display a qualitative similarity to the so-called 'minimal defect', for the same parameters. Finally, numerical simulations of a 'edge state' are conducted, to identify an unstable solution which mediates laminar-turbulent transition and relate it to results of the optimisation procedure.

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