Critical threshold in pipe flow transition

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

Volumn 367, Issue 1888, 2009, Pages 545-560

  Mellibovsky, Fernando ^a   Meseguer, Alvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical threshold; Newton Krylov methods; Pipe flow; Transition to turbulence; Travelling waves

Indexed keywords

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BASIN OF ATTRACTIONS; CONSTANT MASSES; CRITICAL AMPLITUDES; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; FLOW TRANSITIONS; IMPULSIVE FORCING; IN PIPES; INITIAL GUESSES; NEWTON-KRYLOV METHODS; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; PERIODIC TRAVELLING WAVE SOLUTIONS; PIPE WALLS; POISEUILLE FLOWS; SHOOTING METHODS; THRESHOLD AMPLITUDES; TRANSIENT STATES; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE; TRANSITIONAL DYNAMICS; TRAVELLING WAVES; TRIGGER TRANSITIONS;

PIPE;

EID: 58149127970     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0165     Document Type: Article

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