The first R_cr as a possible measure of the entrainment length in a 2D steady wake
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Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Wakes and jets (76D25) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15)
Abstract: At a fixed distance from the body which creates the wake, entrainment is only seen to increase with the Reynolds number () up to a distance of almost 20 body scales. This increase levels up to a Reynolds number close to the critical value for the onset of the first instability. The entrainment is observed to be almost extinguished at a distance which is nearly the same for all the steady wakes within the range here considered, i.e. [20-100], which indicates that supercritical steady wakes have the same entrainment length as the subcritical ones. It is observed that this distance is equal to a number of body lengths that is equal to the value of the critical Reynolds number (), as indicated by a large compilation of experimental results. {it A fortiori} of these findings, we propose to interpret the unsteady bifurcation as a process that allows a smooth increase-redistribution of the entrainment along the wake according to the weight of the convection over the diffusion. The entrainment variation along the steady wake has been determined using a matched asymptotic expansion of the Navier-Stokes velocity field [Tordella and Belan, {it Physics of Fluids}, 15(2003)] built on criteria that include the matching of the transversal velocity produced by the entrainment process.
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