Large scale flow around turbulent spots

Abstract

Numerical simulations of a model of plane Couette flow focusing on its in-plane spatio-temporal properties are used to study the dynamics of turbulent spots.

16 pages, 6 figures

References in corpus (3)

• "Barber pole turbulence" in large aspect ratio Taylor-Couette flow
• Mean flow of turbulent-laminar patterns in plane Couette flow
• Evolution of turbulent spots in a parallel shear flow

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• Transition to turbulence in wall-bounded flows: Where do we stand?
• On the transition to turbulence of wall-bounded flows in general, and plane Couette flow in particular
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• On the decay of turbulence in plane Couette flow
• Laminar-Turbulent Patterning in Transitional Flows
• Understanding the sub-critical transition to turbulence in wall flows
• Laminar-turbulent patterning in wall-bounded shear flows: a Galerkin model
• Far field of turbulent spots
• Turbulent spot growth in plane Couette flow: statistical study and formation of spanwise vorticity
• Model for transitional turbulence in a planar shear flow