Localized edge states nucleate turbulence in extended plane Couette cells

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 646, Issue , 2010, Pages 441-451

  Schneider, Tobias M ^a,b   Marinc, Daniel ^a,c   Eckhardt, Bruno ^a,d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TURBULENT FLOW;

LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLOW; LOCALIZED PERTURBATION; LOCALIZED STATE; PLANE COUETTE FLOW; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE TRANSITION; TURBULENT DYNAMICS; TURBULENT SPOTS;

TURBULENCE;

COUETTE FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 77749285424     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009993144     Document Type: Article

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