Transient growth and minimal defects: Two possible initial paths of transition to turbulence in plane shear flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3515-3529

  Biau, Damien ^a   Bottaro, Alessandro ^a  

^a IMFT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); LEAKAGE (FLUID); TURBULENT FLOW; WALL FLOW;

BYPASS TRANSITION; GROWTH MECHANISMS; OPTIMAL DISTURBANCES;

SHEAR FLOW;

FLUID DYNAMICS; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 4043107373     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1775194     Document Type: Article

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