Pattern fluctuations in transitional plane Couette flow

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0126-XzbMATH Open1213.76095arXiv1101.2513OpenAlexW2017556092MaRDI QIDQ628684FDOQ628684

Joran Rolland, Paul Manneville

Publication date: 14 March 2011

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In wide enough systems, plane Couette flow, the flow established between two parallel plates translating in opposite directions, displays alternatively turbulent and laminar oblique bands in a given range of Reynolds numbers R. We show that in periodic domains that contain a few bands, for given values of R and size, the orientation and the wavelength of this pattern can fluctuate in time. A procedure is defined to detect well-oriented episodes and to determine the statistics of their lifetimes. The latter turn out to be distributed according to exponentially decreasing laws. This statistics is interpreted in terms of an activated process described by a Langevin equation whose deterministic part is a standard Landau model for two interacting complex amplitudes whereas the noise arises from the turbulent background.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2513

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zbMATH Keywords

pattern formationfluid dynamicsjump processplane Couette flowtransition to turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Transition to turbulence (76F06) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20)

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