Formation of turbulent patterns near the onset of transition in plane Couette flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 650, Issue , 2010, Pages 119-129

  Duguet, Y ^a,b   Schlatter, P ^a   Henningson, D S ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; FLUID MECHANICS;

BANDED PATTERNS; COMPUTATIONAL BOX; INITIAL PERTURBATION; PLANE COUETTE FLOW; TRANSITION SCENARIOS; TURBULENT MOTION; TURBULENT PATTERNS; TURBULENT SPOTS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUETTE FLOW; FLOW PATTERN; PERTURBATION; PHASE TRANSITION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 77952419597     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010000297     Document Type: Article

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