Streamwise vortices in shear flows: Harbingers of transition and the skeleton of coherent structures

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 661, Issue , 2010, Pages 178-205

  Hall, Philip ^a   Sherwin, Spencer ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

control theory; nonlinear instability; transition to turbulence

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; CHANNEL FLOW; CONTROL THEORY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

ASYMPTOTIC THEORIES; COHERENT STRUCTURE; FINITE REYNOLDS NUMBER; NONLINEAR INSTABILITY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; STREAMWISE VORTICES; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE; TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS;

SHEAR FLOW;

COUETTE FLOW; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 78649925372     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010002892     Document Type: Article

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