The critical layer in pipe flow at high Reynolds number

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DOI10.1098/RSTA.2008.0225zbMATH Open1221.76098arXiv0809.1498OpenAlexW3105882292WikidataQ51619189 ScholiaQ51619189MaRDI QIDQ5504083FDOQ5504083


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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)

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 Re0.41 and Re0.87 -- 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.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1498




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