Aspects of linear and nonlinear instabilities leading to transition in pipe and channel flows

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1888, 2009, Pages 509-527

  Cohen, Jacob ^a   Philip, Jimmy ^a   Ben Dov, Guy ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hairpin vortices; Optimal deviations; Streaks; Transient growth

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CHANNEL FLOW; DECAY (ORGANIC); FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROWTH (MATERIALS); LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; PIPE; PIPE FLOW; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW;

AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; AXISYMMETRIC; BASE FLOWS; DECAY RATES; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; HAIRPIN VORTICES; IN PIPES; IN PLANES; LINEAR AND NONLINEAR INSTABILITIES; LINEAR STABILITIES; MAXIMUM ENERGIES; MINIMAL DISTURBANCES; NONLINEAR FEATURES; NONLINEAR MECHANISMS; OPTIMAL DEVIATIONS; PARALLEL MODES; POISEUILLE FLOWS; POISEUILLE PROFILES; ROTATING VORTICES; RUNNING MODES; STATIONARY MODES; STREAKS; STRONG LINKS; SUBCRITICAL TRANSITIONS; TRANSIENT GROWTH; TRANSIENT GROWTH MECHANISMS; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCES; TURBULENT STATES;

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149118265     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0189     Document Type: Article

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