Improved upper bound on the energy dissipation rate in plane Couette flow: The full solution to Busse's problem and the Constantin-Doering-Hopf problem with one-dimensional background field

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 477, Issue , 2003, Pages 363-379

  Plasting, S C ^a   Kerswell, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

COUETTE FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COUETTE FLOW; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0037465214     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112002003361     Document Type: Article

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