The critical layer in pipe flow at high Reynolds number

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2008.0225MaRDI QIDQ5504083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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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/0809.1498

zbMATH Keywords

travelling wavespipe flowcritical layer\texttt{GMRES hookstep}

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Transition to turbulence (76F06)

Abstract: We report the computation of a family of traveling wave solutions of pipe flow up to $Re=75000$. As in all lower-branch solutions, streaks and rolls feature prominently in these solutions. For large $Re$, these solutions develop a critical layer away from the wall. Although the solutions are linearly unstable, the two unstable eigenvalues approach 0 as $Reoinfty$ at rates given by $R{e}^{-0.41}$ and $R{e}^{-0.87}$ -- surprisingly, the solutions become more stable as the flow becomes less viscous. The formation of the critical layer and other aspects of the $Reoinfty$ limit could be universal to lower-branch solutions of shear flows. We give implementation details of the GMRES-hookstep and Arnoldi iterations used for computing these solutions and their spectra, while pointing out the new aspects of our method.

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