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physics.flu-dyn2021
Tollmien-Schlichting route to elastoinertial turbulence in channel flow
Ashwin Shekar, Ryan M. McMullen, Beverley J. McKeon +1
Direct simulations of two-dimensional channel flow of a viscoelastic fluid have revealed the existence of a family of Tollmien-Schlichting (TS) attractors that is nonlinearly self-…
physics.flu-dyn2019
Self-sustained elastoinertial Tollmien-Schlichting waves
Ashwin Shekar, Ryan M. McMullen, Beverley J. McKeon +1
Direct simulations of two-dimensional plane channel flow of a viscoelastic fluid at Reynolds number Re = 3000 reveal the existence of a family of attractors whose structure closely…
physics.flu-dyn2018
Critical-layer structures and mechanisms in elastoinertial turbulence
Ashwin Shekar, Ryan M. McMullen, Sung-Ning Wang +2
Simulations of elastoinertial turbulence (EIT) of a polymer solution at low Reynolds number are shown to display localized polymer stretch fluctuations. These are very similar to s…