Visualizing the geometry of state space in plane Couette flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 611, Issue , 2008, Pages 107-130

  Gibson, J F ^a   Halcrow, J ^a   Cvitanovic P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; STATE SPACE METHODS;

EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL CONTINUATIONS; HETEROCLINIC CONNECTION; INVARIANT MANIFOLDS; INVARIANT SOLUTIONS; STATE SPACE REPRESENTATION; SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

COUETTE FLOW; EIGENVALUE; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 50949126837     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200800267X     Document Type: Article

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