Heteroclinic connections in plane Couette flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 621, Issue , 2009, Pages 365-376

  Halcrow, J ^a   Gibson, J F ^a   Cvitanovic P ^a   Viswanath, D ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

HETEROCLINIC CONNECTION; INVARIANT SET; LINEAR PROFILES; PERIODIC SOLUTION; PLANE COUETTE FLOW; SUBCRITICAL TRANSITION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

COUETTE FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 65649142236     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008005065     Document Type: Article

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